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Plot Summary
Brendan Gleeson delivers “a truly sensational performance” (Total Film) in this “wickedly funny black comedy” (Time Out) from acclaimed writer-director John Michael McDonagh (The Guard). When a good priest (Gleeson) is threatened by a mysterious member of his parish, he feels sinister forces closing in and begins to wonder if he will have the courage to face his own personal Calvary.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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89%- Reviews Counted: 143
- Fresh: 127
- Rotten: 16
- Average Rating: 7.6/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: Calvary is bleak and corrosively funny in about equal measure.
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.
Fresh: Gleeson carries the film with wonderful, natural authority. He's a little better than the movie itself, which is glib to a fault.
Fresh: I imagine most people will watch the film and merely see the village as populated by vivid eccentrics. But a closer look at these odd, bitter, hostile characters will suggest something darker at work.
