Review: "The Guard" falls short but provides big laughs and lots of heart
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Film Rating: B
One of my favorite films of the last few years is Martin McDonagh’s In Bruges, a movie that comes as close to perfect as any film can. Though riotously funny, it’s not quite a comedy, and though it can be painfully bleak and is thematically complex, it’s also not quite a drama. It eschews ordinary genre classification, but make no mistak…
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