This is FRESH AIR. In the new movie "Calvary" Brendan Gleeson plays an Irish village priest who must eventually face off against a killer. Film critic David Edelstein has this review. DAVID EDELSTEIN, ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...

'Calvary' movie review: Brendan Gleeson lends weight to powerful, and dark, drama Mike Scott, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune Aug 15, 2014 3 min to read 1 of 6 ...

Writer-director John Michael McDonagh and actor Brendan Gleeson made a big international splash with 2011′s “The Guard,” a terrifically entertaining action-comedy that offered little indication of the ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...

Director John Michael McDonagh’s Calvary lays out its stark premise in a brilliant opening scene. Irish priest Father James (Brendan Gleeson) sits in the darkness of a confessional, while an unseen ...

CANNES – “Calvary,” “Byzantium” and “Philomena” were the biggest winners at the Irish Film and Television Awards in Dublin, with each film taking three awards. Guests at the event, which was hosted by ...

Sundance Film Festival Theatrical Acquisitions. At the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, Tusk, The Skeleton Twins, God’s Pocket, Cold In July, Calvary, I Origins, and The One I Love have had their ...

“Calvary” is like a philosophical Agatha Christie mystery. That’s certainly not the worst thing to be. But it’s also the film’s undoing, because the reliance on specific genre cliches undermines the ...

In the most Catholic country on earth, a bitter nonbeliever tells a priest, “Your time is gone.” Replies the cleric, “My time will never be gone.” With much sober reflection, the devastating parable ...

John Michael McDonagh's new movie stars Brendan Gleeson as a priest who must eventually face off against a killer. It's excruciatingly obvious and... In The Irish Film 'Calvary,' A Priest's Crisis Of ...

If you were putting together a list of the greatest opening movie lines of all time, you'd probably find yourself willingly leaving out Calvary. Not because it's a flimsy throwaway line that lacks ...