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Jake Coyle, Associated Press: VERY GOOD (cg) "Cheadle cuts a sharp figure in the raw Irish countryside. He's an excellent straight man to Gleeson.... 'The Guard' is proud, foul-mouthed..." (Read the full review...) 772 words, 07/28/11 Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: VERY GOOD (cg) "Gleeson, with a brogue as thick as Guinness, plays a small-town Irish cop... Cheadle, as an FBI agent trying to stop a drug ring, makes the perfect foil." (Read the full review...) 77 words, 07/29/11 Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a pleasure. I can't tell if it's really (bleeping) dumb or really (bleeping) smart, but it's pretty (bleeping) good." (Read the full review...) 765 words, 08/05/11
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: GOOD "Popping with glorious, bright color and off-color jokes.... Mr. Gleeson's rogue is a treat, however conceptually contrived, and Mr. Cheadle's lightly played gravity is a pleasure." (Read the full review...) 718 words, 07/29/11 Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...indulges in too many '90s affectations... But director John Michael McDonagh captures his misty setting's insular atmosphere beautifully." (Read the full review...) 155 words, 07/29/11 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: EXCELLENT "...a great gust of very funny fresh air. An impish and impudent black comedy that knows where it's going and how to get there..." (Read the full review...) 716 words, 07/29/11 Kyle Smith, New York Post: VERY GOOD (cg) "Your appreciation of the humor will rest on whether you find it funny when, for instance, the cop asks a little kid what he's doing around here and the boy answers, 'Heroin.' " (Read the full review...) 524 words, 07/29/11 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Part Joel & Ethan Coen and part John Millington Synge... I'd see it again just to hear the drug smugglers argue over the use of the Americanism 'good to go.' " (Read the full review...) 585 words, 08/05/11 Rafer Guzman, New York Newsday: VERY GOOD (cg) "...wry, sly, charmingly profane... Writer-director John Michael McDonagh has essentially fashioned an Irish Western, complete with galloping soundtrack." (Read the full review...) 323 words, 08/12/11 Logan Hill, New York Magazine: EXCELLENT "...well-acted, explosively funny, and tightly executed... boasts the latest in a brilliant string of performances by bastard-with-a-brogue specialist Brendan Gleeson." (Read the full review...) 457 words, 07/29/11 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a pleasure. I can't tell if it's really (bleeping) dumb or really (bleeping) smart, but it's pretty (bleeping) good." (Read the full review...) 765 words, 08/05/11 Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice/LA Weekly: FAIR "...bets everything on Brendon Gleeson's boyish twinkle -- and tends to overestimate its own raffish charm." (Read the full review...) 211 words, 07/27/11 Peter Howell, Toronto Star: VERY GOOD (cg) "...really just a chance for writer and first-time director John Michael McDonagh to bust his best Tarantino moves." (Read the full review...) 621 words, 08/26/11 Liam Lacey, Toronto Globe & Mail: VERY GOOD (cg) "The film is guilty of being overly cute, but it brims with talent and a freshness that extends beyond the clever script." (Read the full review...) 561 words, 08/26/11 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...the finest, oddest buddy cop picture I've seen since 'Hot Fuzz,' but it plays out in a very different, very specifically Irish way.... one of the best movies I've seen this year." (Read the full review...) 397 words, 08/25/11
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Cheadle and Gleeson's riffs and repartee tumble back and forth as if they've been trading lies over Guinness forever." (Read the full review...) 289 words, 08/12/11 Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: OUTSTANDING (cg) "John Michael McDonagh has a gift for mixing comically absurd banter with the bloody business of police and gangsters.... The dialogue is smart, screwball, sublime." (Read the full review...) 473 words, 08/12/11 Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...soars along on a script, like those by the other McDonagh (Martin wrote and directed 'In Bruges' and the Oscar winning short 'Six Shooter,' both starring Gleeson)..." (Read the full review...) 559 words, 08/20/11 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...distinctly Irish storytelling, a Guinness-dark crime comedy full of mad digressions and extraneous characters... a delightful pile of blarney..." (Read the full review...) 436 words, 08/12/11 Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: OUTSTANDING (cg) "It takes some seriously good acting to overcome a well-worn story. Enter Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle..." (Read the full review...) 463 words, 08/19/11 Ty Burr, Boston Globe: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...has a wickedly smart script that keeps you on your toes, and it has from Brendan Gleeson a star performance of cruelly funny mastery." (Read the full review...) 694 words, 08/05/11 Stephen Whitty, New Jersey Star-Ledger: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Gleeson is terrific, and the film has some small, smart touches." (Read the full review...) 507 words, 07/29/11 Amy Biancolli, San Francisco Chronicle: VERY GOOD (cg) "Crisp, acid-tongued and sharply acted... the sort of exercise in tangy Celtic cynicism that's become one of the Emerald Isle's most reliable exports." (Read the full review...) 322 words, 08/05/11 John Hartl, Seattle Times: VERY GOOD (cg) "The relationship becomes the story, and the actors know it. While the positively gleeful Gleeson chews the scenery, Cheadle cleverly gnaws away at what's left." (Read the full review...) 318 words, 08/12/11 Shawn Levy, Portland Oregonian: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...has visual and verbal flair, spry energy and deep wit." (Read the full review...) 301 words, 08/12/11 Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: VERY GOOD (cg) "...violent, profane and funny. But director John Michael McDonagh is interested in more than mockery." (Read the full review...) 367 words, 08/19/11 Tom Long, Detroit News: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a cheeky look at corrupt cops and the drug smugglers who feed them bribes.... Written and directed with fine spirit by John Michael McDonagh..." (Read the full review...) 280 words, 08/19/11 Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: VERY GOOD (cg) "...cheerfully vulgar, and the Irish brogues sometimes get a bit thick, but Gleeson and Cheadle make such an unusual and memorable pairing that none of this matters." (Read the full review...) 426 words, 10/14/11
Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice/LA Weekly: FAIR "...bets everything on Brendon Gleeson's boyish twinkle -- and tends to overestimate its own raffish charm." (Read the full review...) 211 words, 07/27/11 Eric Eisenberg, Cinema Blend: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a dark comedy in every sense of the word, but everyone will be too busy laughing to care about the boundaries being pushed." (Read the full review...) 538 words, 07/27/11 Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...equal parts 'In the Heat of the Night,' 'Coup de Torchon,' and good old Irish blarney... would be too clever by half if not for Brendan Gleeson's canny performance." (Read the full review...) 156 words, 08/04/11 Keith Phipps, AV Club: VERY GOOD (cg) "...focusing the film on Gleeson was certainly the right choice. His performance is equal parts funny and unnerving, and he keeps viewers guessing..." (Read the full review...) 447 words, 07/28/11 Michelle Orange, Movieline: MODERATE (cg) "...never quite as amusing as it thinks it is.... The odd couple don't spend enough time together to get much of a rapport going..." (Read the full review...) 559 words, 07/28/11 Nick Schager, Slant: VERY GOOD (cg) "John Michael McDonagh's direction is smooth, but it's his writing that carries the day, treating genre elements with both seriousness and subversive humor..." (Read the full review...) 467 words, 04/29/11 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...the finest, oddest buddy cop picture I've seen since 'Hot Fuzz,' but it plays out in a very different, very specifically Irish way.... one of the best movies I've seen this year." (Read the full review...) 397 words, 08/25/11
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: GOOD "Popping with glorious, bright color and off-color jokes.... Mr. Gleeson's rogue is a treat, however conceptually contrived, and Mr. Cheadle's lightly played gravity is a pleasure." (Read the full review...) 718 words, 07/29/11 Mark Jenkins, NPR: VERY GOOD "With all due respect to Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci, nobody delivers the f-word like the Irish." (Read the full review...) 575 words, 07/28/11 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: EXCELLENT "...a great gust of very funny fresh air. An impish and impudent black comedy that knows where it's going and how to get there..." (Read the full review...) 716 words, 07/29/11 Andrew O'Hehir, Salon: GOOD "...enjoyable if miscellaneous... Mixes a leg-pulling social satire set in the rural west of Ireland with a Tarantino-inflected crime drama... a nifty little Irish summer vacation." (Read the full review...) 425 words, 07/29/11
Justin Chang, Daily Variety: GOOD "A crusty jewel of a performance by Brendan Gleeson goes a long way toward enlivening an otherwise routine tale..." (Read the full review...) 851 words, 01/21/11 Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter: EXCELLENT "Scabrous, profane, violent, verbally adroit and very often hilarious... capped by a protean performance by Brendan Gleeson..." (Read the full review...) 729 words, 01/21/11 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: EXCELLENT "...a great gust of very funny fresh air. An impish and impudent black comedy that knows where it's going and how to get there..." (Read the full review...) 716 words, 07/29/11 Emanuel Levy, Cinema 24/7: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a caustically funny Irish thriller.... smart and shrewd enough to acknowledge its limitations without ever trying to truly transcend them." (Read the full review...) 770 words, 07/26/11 Manohla Dargis, New York Times: GOOD "Popping with glorious, bright color and off-color jokes.... Mr. Gleeson's rogue is a treat, however conceptually contrived, and Mr. Cheadle's lightly played gravity is a pleasure." (Read the full review...) 718 words, 07/29/11
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