Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence In The House Of God Reviews

a carefully constructed observation of the facts and a withering condemnation of the behaviour of the Catholic Church.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Before you say you can't take another feature length documentary about sexual abuse committed by Catholic priests, know that Alex Gibney's examination of the subject is both fresh and revelatory.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Gibney tracks a disgraceful cover-up within the Catholic church.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

A heartbreaking, brilliantly executed exposé, in which four deaf victims bring the church to account. Their testimonies are chilling.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Alex Gibney isn't casting the first stone at the Vatican with his documentary Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God. But, God willing, it will be the most effective in shattering their narrative of blissful ignorance.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Tragedy that sticks to your bones -- a gut-punch look at the Catholic Church child sex abuse scandal as filtered through the experiential prism of a group of victims from a single Midwestern school for the deaf.

Full Review | Original Score: A

With meticulous care and intricate detail, Silence In The House of God deconstructs the nature of the Catholic Church's systematic cover ups of pedophilia among their clergy, stretching back well into the past century

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It is ironic that the raised voices of a small group of deaf boys from Milwaukee, Wisconsin are loud enough to threaten the code of silence over child molestation accusations in the Catholic Church

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It's not one documentary that you'd care to endure on repeat viewings but it's a necessary investigation into the paedophilic petri dish that the Catholic Church allowed itself to become.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5

It's impossible to leave the cinema without hoping that the Papal resignation and the awful events explored here are not unrelated.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

It's a lucid film everyone should see and the Vatican should answer for.

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There's a reason this expertly shot and edited documentary is skimming under the radar: no one wants you to see it. The hugely skilled Gibney is taking on the world's biggest corporation, the Vatican.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

[A] harrowing exposé of child abuse within the Roman Catholic Church, which reveals the extent the Vatican has been actively involved in covering up crimes committed by priests.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

A kind of unintentional leaving gift for the outgoing Pope Benedict, though it is not one he is likely to relish.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

The film shocks you to the marrow, and every frame burns with a righteous fire, itself religious in its intensity.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

The case has been widely reported but this is still an important film, laying out who knew what, and when. It's chilling: the conspiracy of silence goes all the way to the Vatican.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

This is a tremendous documentary: at once cool and scalding, outraged and meticulous; a must-see for everyone, both inside and outside the "House of God".

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

Impressively directed and thoroughly researched, Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God is a powerful and deeply upsetting documentary that demands to be seen.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Details the ways, in the face of devastating evidence, that the Catholic Church attempted to cover-up a priest's serial criminality.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

If you thought that Amy Berg's Deliver Us from Evil had extracted every last word on the issue of child abuse in the Catholic Church, Alex Gibney proves with his new film that there's still plenty left to be infuriated about.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5