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IMDb rating 7.4
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Critic rating 8.2

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Critic Glenn Kenny
rated 8

Catholic nor Irish, this “Calvary” will in no way be a useless sacrifice of your moviegoing time.

Read full review at Roger Ebert
Critic A.A. Dowd
rated 7

...builds to an ending that feels cut-and-dry, while leaving the impression that some larger point—perhaps one about culpability, or responsibility, or God, or something even larger—may be getting lost along the way.

Read full review at The A.V. Club
Critic Kim Newman
rated 10

This is even more Gleeson’s film, but is studded with superb work from Reilly as the damaged yet loyal daughter, Aidan Gillen as a venomous atheist coroner...

Read full review at Empire
Critic Xan Brooks
rated 8

...a film with a deep love of language and a sharp sense of place; a puckish little tease that first purrs with pleasure and then shows us its claws.

Read full review at The Guardian
Critic Stefan Hedmark
rated 8

Roligt, bryskt och gripande, med en varm och dominerande insats av Gleeson.

Read full review at Aftonbladet
Critic Viktor Jerner
rated 8

…en moraliskt komplex och känslomässigt förkrossande film som kommer dröja kvar hos publiken…

Read full review at Moviezine

Cast & Crew

M. Emmet Walsh
As The Writer
Brendan Gleeson
As Father James Lavelle
Aidan Gillen
As Dr. Frank Harte

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Calvary's plot centers around Father James Lavelle, a kind-hearted priest who is threatened during a confession and given a week to put his affairs in order before he is killed. Instead of reporting the threat to the police, James decides to continue his parish duties as usual, encountering hostility from various locals. He also visits an elderly writer who requests his help in obtaining a gun to end his life when necessary and counsels a young man struggling with suicidal thoughts and pornography addiction. Meanwhile, James' daughter Fiona visits him, and he attempts to discuss her attempted suicide without success. As the day of his potential murder approaches, James faces various challenges while trying to find solace in his work and prepare for the possibility of death.

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Calvary was released in theaters on August 1, 2014.