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The Guard Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle are the improbable cop duo in John Michael McDonagh's (brother of In Bruges' Martin McDonagh) blisteringly funny Irish country caper, in which a brazenly irregular constable and a straight FBI guy go on the hunt for big-time drug smugglers. Flurries of wild, irreverent dialogue and pints of dark, creamy Guinness ensue. R

    by Steven Rea | Columnist, Inquirer
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The Guard

Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle are the improbable cop duo in John Michael McDonagh's (brother of In Bruges' Martin McDonagh) blisteringly funny Irish country caper, in which a brazenly irregular constable and a straight FBI guy go on the hunt for big-time drug smugglers. Flurries of wild, irreverent dialogue and pints of dark, creamy Guinness ensue.

R

Our Idiot Brother Paul Rudd has the title role - as an exasperatingly naive stoner stumblebum - in this good-natured, goofy comedy. His three sisters are played by Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel, and Emily Mortimer, and Steve Coogan shows up as an amusingly pretentious, philandering documentarian. R

Point Blank A hospital nurse gets thrown into a do-or-die situation in this breakneck French thriller - a fast and furious action piece in the tradition of Tell No One. No MPAA rating