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By Rebecca Cusey (105) for Patheos (85) on 30 Jul 2014

This priest cuts through false motives, calls people on their baloney, talks to them straight, loves them despite themselves…

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By Mark Olsen (451) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 30 Jul 2014

The film is then not so much a meditation but a reverie, a swirl of emotions and ideas, managing to be both calmly reflective and skittishly…

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By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 30 Jul 2014

Visually, intellectually and emotionally, McDonagh’s film is one to savor…

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By Andrew O'hehir (1,324) for Salon.com (2,725) on 30 Jul 2014

McDonagh walks a hazardous tightrope from scene to scene, from amiable comedy to black-hearted farce to heartbreaking tragedy, often trying…

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By Claudia Puig (2,080) for USA Today (4,117) on 30 Jul 2014

Calvary is also profoundly compelling for the light it shines on how public attitudes have changed toward the clergy in the wake of the abusive-priests…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 30 Jul 2014

It's a film of modest means and great ambition, a darkly comic drama concerned with nothing less than the place of faith, and an embattled…

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By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 30 Jul 2014

Some of Calvary is uncomfortably bleak…

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By Wayne D (94) on 29 Jul 2014

Meandering, morbid, nonsensical, and ultimately fallow…

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By Mark C (1,395) on 29 Jul 2014

There is no doubt that there is a unifying element that seems to persist in Irish cinema , especially in recent years; Irish films are depressing…

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By Kyle Smith (1,916) for New York Post (6,650) on 29 Jul 2014

Twice I have left a Calvary screening feeling dazed and moved…

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By Tasha Robinson (753) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 29 Jul 2014

While it’s less playful and less giddily, enjoyably excessive than The Guard, it explores similar ground, as a good-hearted man largely abandoned…

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By Rex Reed (1,506) for Observer (1,042) on 29 Jul 2014

Downbeat, depressing and heavy as lead, Calvary is nevertheless an unusual film that never bores…

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By Justin F (323) on 28 Jul 2014

Very good movie, with some odd performances/characters. More humor than one might expect…

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By Anthony B (897) on 28 Jul 2014

Terrible movie..... complete misery... vastly overrated…

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By Kirk Honeycutt (1,481) for honeycuttshollywood.com (375) on 28 Jul 2014

Every parishioner of Father James' a flamboyant figure of comic dysfunction, nihilism or misanthropy…

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By Amy Nicholson (961) for Village Voice (8,525) on 28 Jul 2014

Gleeson is one of the finest actors we have, and in casting him as the lead, McDonagh stacks the deck so that regardless of our own religious…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for McClatchy-Tribune News Service (291) on 28 Jul 2014

Calvary is a compact and biting tale of a righteous man being tested by his faith, his peers and his predicament…

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By Jaime N. Christley (95) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 28 Jul 2014

One may feel dissatisfied by the 11th-hour turn toward lyrical fatalism, and mildly insulted by the presumptuous attitude it seems to choose…

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By Paul L (703) on 26 Jul 2014

Calvary is the second film I've seen this year that I feel confident will have legs to reach the Oscar race…

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By Ryan H (2,006) on 26 Jul 2014

I rarely describe a film as powerful, but Calvary is powerful in how it presents an accurate depiction of our modern ignorance and even Irish…

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