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Calvary

Killing a priest on a Sunday. That’ll be a good one.

2014 · 1h 41m · R Drama
Directed by John Michael McDonagh

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Overview

After being threatened during a confession, a good-natured priest must battle the dark forces closing in around him.

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All reviews
89%
Tomatometer
Fresh

The tension of Calvary is fitful at best, and much of the movie trips into silliness, but in Brendan Gleeson -- in his proud bearing and his lamenting gaze -- we see the plight of the lonely believer in a world beyond belief.

Anthony Lane, New Yorker
Rotten

Brendan Gleeson delivers a typically towering yet warm performance in "Calvary." Too bad the movie's something of a mess.

Tom Long, Detroit News
Fresh

It serves as a marvelous showcase for Gleeson, a great old-lion actor who shows, in the film's many close-ups, a quiet, weary yet unbending faith, and a face on which emotion can play like a wave on the beach.

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
Fresh

Both the comedy and the violence are watered down by a dark melancholy.

Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Fresh

A dark and profoundly funny tale of an institution failing its sheep and its best shepherds.

Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post

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