brendan gleeson

Poignant and hilarious and tragic and achingly real in all the ways McDonagh’s films are, ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ is magnificent.

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‘Macbeth’ is built like some kind of cinematic fantasy sports lineup and executed with all of the ease of an all-star team playing a no-pads scrimmage.

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Brendan Gleeson stars in a dark comedy/mystery/character actors’ dream about a priest given a week to live before a stranger plans to kill him.

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Director Daniel Espinosa presents ‘Safe House’ with lots of handheld shaky-cam work and uncomfortable close-ups to make it seem more realistic, which is good—because if you think too much about the plot, you may realize it’s pretty silly stuff.

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Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle are the best odd couple of the year and ‘The Guard’ is a very funny black comedy. In the spotty ‘Higher Ground,’ Vera Farmiga plays a woman struggling with her devout Christianity over three decades of her life.

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