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By Alison Willmore (681) for AV Club (2,778) on 15 Nov 2012

Mea Maxima Culpa is not gentle about placing blame on a structure that elevates priests above the rest of mankind and prioritizes maintaining…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 15 Nov 2012

Given the grievousness of their sins, one wonders why the church continues to shelter them…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for Indiewire (3,631) on 15 Nov 2012

Gibney's narrative drags to some extent when the focus widens to explore the Vatican's overall policy for covering up sex scandals, but he…

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By Joe Neumaier (1,294) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 15 Nov 2012

Fearless nonfiction filmmaker Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side, Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer) details a history of horrific…

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By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 14 Nov 2012

By turns moving, absorbing and downright rage-inducing…

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By Marsha Mccreadie (81) for Village Voice (8,525) on 13 Nov 2012

Silence might be the most perfect expression of scorn, as the saying goes, but like Edvard Munch's The Scream, you don't have to hear it to…

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By Jordan Hoffman (1,025) for Film.com (1,892) on 13 Nov 2012

I don't speak Latin, but I'm pretty sure that Mea Maxima Culpa translates into, Good grief, don't watch this movie without access to some Excedrin…

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By David Fear (910) for Time Out (7,510) on 13 Nov 2012

Mea Maxima Culpa only gets messier the more it tries to iris out to a larger indictment. The central tragedy ends up diluted to a fault…

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By Edward Douglas (1,395) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 12 Nov 2012

Powerful enough to leave you wondering whether the Catholic Church will ever stop protecting child molesters…

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By David Edelstein (2,124) for New York Magazine/Vulture (3,519) on 12 Nov 2012

Beyond the Mafia-like code of silence, it comes down to this: The guys at the top reserved their compassion for priests like Father Murphy…

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By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 12 Nov 2012

Damning documentary pairs an individual sex-abuse case with analysis of institutional dysfunction at the Vatican…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Variety (12,700) on 12 Nov 2012

A powerful, necessary contribution to a chilling body of reportage that, one senses by film's end, has just begun to take stock of the human…

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By Tomas Hachard (101) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Nov 2012

Alex Gibney's latest lacks a certain cinematic depth, but that doesn't take away from its admirable reporting…

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By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 06 Nov 2012

[VIDEO ESSAY] You could come away from the movie thinking that the Catholic Church is nothing more than an impermeable mafia of fascist monsters…

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By Cj O (262) on 17 Oct 2012

Tough movie to watch at times, with the realization of the lengths that were taken to protect priests who abused children, but very well done…

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By Richard M (1,299) on 13 Oct 2012

You must be aware of the child abuse scandals in the Catholic Church which, with some effort, have to some extent been extracted out of the…

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By Joshua R (418) on 08 Sep 2012

This is likely the best documentary I have ever watched…

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