- Venus in Fur
If you’re sick of watching Brendan Gleeson prop up movies unworthy of his time or talent, make a beeline for Calvary, a potent combination of spiritual drama and wicked black comedy by writer-director John Michael McDonagh (The Guard). Gleeson plays an Irish Catholic priest marked for death by a man who was sexually abused by another priest as a child—our four-star review is here. Also in this week’s issue, Ben Sachs breathes heavily on the new tornado thriller Into the Storm, and it collapses. And we’ve got recommended reviews of The German Doctor, an Argentine drama about a family who unknowingly welcome Josef Mengele into their home, and Venus in Fur, Roman Polanski’s adaptation of the David Ives play about a stage director casting a show about sadomasochism and the actress who walks all over him.
