Chances are you haven’t seen 'The Guard.' Hell, I only saw it because I needed to kill two hours at the Tribeca Film Festival and it happened to be starting at an opportune moment. Brendan Gleeson plays an Irish cop who isn't too pleased to be taking orders from an American FBI agent (Don Cheadle) who's in the country investigating an international drug-smuggling ring. Gleeson gives perhaps the funniest performance of the year (in what is now the most financially successful Irish film of all time), as the slightly alcoholic and, at times, casually racist Boyle. Hopefully we haven’t seen the last of Gleeson and Cheadle as an unlikely crime fighting team. -- M.R.

Chances are you haven’t seen 'The Guard.' Hell, I only saw it because I needed to kill two hours at the Tribeca Film Festival and it happened to be starting at an opportune moment. Brendan Gleeson plays an Irish cop who isn't too pleased to be taking orders from an American FBI agent (Don Cheadle) who's in the country investigating an international drug-smuggling ring. Gleeson gives perhaps the funniest performance of the year (in what is now the most financially successful Irish film of all time), as the slightly alcoholic and, at times, casually racist Boyle. Hopefully we haven’t seen the last of Gleeson and Cheadle as an unlikely crime fighting team. -- M.R.