Tallahatchee Bridge

The Guard

Crit

You hear "Don Cheadle and Brendan Gleeson in a cop/buddy movie," and you just pray the reviews come in good enough for you to risk it.This one showed strong, and why not: brilliantly funny, with a script by director John Michael McDonagh heavily influenced by Tarantino, with the most intelligent, articulate, and philosophical team of drug smugglers you're ever likely to encounter. Truth to tell, the level of intelligence and language sophistication across the board beggars credibility, but hey: it's a movie; it's entertainment. And the entertainment has a street value of half a billion.