1. Calvary is gripping, moving, funny and troubling, down to an uncompromising yet uncynical finish.
2. Gleeson delivers towering performance as Christ-like priest who must pay for someone else's sins.
3. We must forgive the movie for its sins of formality because it's trying to work out the mother of moral dilemmas before our very eyes.
4. [T]he kooky residents of a small Irish village... go search of a black comedy, but get stuck in a dramatic thriller that goes nowhere.
5. John Michael McDonagh's caustic passion play pits one stolid cleric against the whole filthy universe of base humanity, which demands he atone for the sins of the Catholic Church.
6. Full-to-bursting with a raft of idiosyncratic characters and philosophical conflicts and the current crisis in the Church and idiomatic comic dialogue strung along by the script's thriller-like ticking clock.
7. McDonagh isn't always successful at juggling his disparate impulses, leaving his film to tonally lurch from one scene to the next. But damned if he shouldn't be praised for trying.
8. Calvary is full-to-bursting with a raft of idiosyncratic characters and philosophical conflicts and the current crisis in the Church and idiomatic comic dialogue strung along by the script's thriller-like ticking clock. It's also beautifully shot.
9. A dark and profoundly funny tale of an institution failing its sheep and its best shepherds.
10. Great filmmaking is an art. McDonagh and Gleeson have showcased that art with "Calvary".
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?
Led by a brilliant performance from Brendan Gleeson, Calvary tackles weighty issues with humor, intelligence, and sensitivity.