Review: ‘Hangmen’ Puts the Death Penalty on Trial
Martin McDonagh wrote a doozy of a role when he created "Hangmen’s" Mooney, the walking, talking plot device who enters a pub in Northern England, emanating a persona that may just as well be a neon sign that says “stranger danger.” He talks up a storm, does Mooney, and with every word becomes more of a sinister presence in the life of Harry Wade, one of the last hangmen in the UK, and proud of it. In the Uni…