In writer-director Martin McDonagh’s debut film, In Bruges, two hit men hide out in the eponymous Belgian city, waiting for a call from their boss. The older man, Ken (Brendan Gleeson), loves playing the tourist. “Bruges is the most well-preserved medieval town in all of Belgium, apparently,” he recites from his…

“Is this a joke?” asks a young Chilean woman early in Martin McDonagh’s new film, Wild Horse Nine. She is trying to grasp something said to her by another character; just as easily, however, she could be wondering exactly what kind of film she is in. For Wild Horse Nine itself is tonally unstable, mixing farcical…