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By Richard Brody (868) for New Yorker (1,403) on 23 Jul 2011

Gleeson and Cheadle are a pair of sharply matched pros who pour their heart into a narrow range of riffs and mannerisms that take the place…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Variety (12,700) on 23 Jul 2011

A crusty jewel of a performance by Brendan Gleeson goes a long way toward enlivening an otherwise routine tale of murder, blackmail, drug trafficking…

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By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 22 Jul 2011

Don Cheadle is Brendan Gleeson's ideal fish-out-of-water foil…

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By Simon Foster (434) for sbs.com.au (697) on 13 Jul 2011

Brendan Gleeson's inevitable march towards Oscar's podium has taken a few great big f***ing leaps forward thanks to John Michael McDonagh's…

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By Matthew Turner (2,508) for ViewLondon (2,339) on 14 Jun 2011

Impressively directed and sharply written, this is an engaging and frequently very funny comedy-thriller with a terrific central performance…

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By Amber Wilkinson (674) for Eye for Film (1,537) on 12 Jun 2011

McDonagh takes what could be a hackneyed tale of mismatched buddy cops and spins it to blisteringly funny effect…

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By Nick Schager (2,294) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 28 Apr 2011

The Guard is John Michael McDonagh's caustically funny riff on cop and crime films…

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By Jordan Hoffman (1,025) for UGO (350) on 28 Apr 2011

We're never quite sure if our hero is the smartest man in the room, or a disgusting racist with a Clouseau-esque knack for careening into victory…

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By Dan Fienberg (310) for HitFix (861) on 22 Jan 2011

The Guard is a fish-out-of-water story, an upside-down Irish Western, a crime drama, a diabolically self-aware comedy and a marvelously acted…

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