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Deliver Us From Evil is a superb documentary and a searing look at an institution protecting its leaders at the expense of its followers. A profoundly disturbing chronicle of a wolf in sheep's clothing, the film builds a clear-eyed case against pedophile priest Oliver O'Grady, and the Catholic bureaucracy that protected him. The recollections of O'Grady's victims are nothing short of shocking and heartbreaking.
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The polemical is never as powerful as the personal and O'Grady's part of the story illuminates the whole with nauseating clarity. May 18, 2007 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
The polemical is never as powerful as the personal and O'Grady's part of the story illuminates the whole with nauseating clarity.
Sandra Hall
Deliver Us Evil is more terrifying than any horror movie, because it's about something that really happened. Dec 15, 2006 | Rating: 4/5
Deliver Us Evil is more terrifying than any horror movie, because it's about something that really happened.
Bill Muller
Watching Amy Berg's powerful documentary Deliver Us from Evil is a wrenching experience; her subjects reveal to the camera almost unbearable levels of anguish, and its audience walks away feeling both numbness and rage. Nov 10, 2006 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
Watching Amy Berg's powerful documentary Deliver Us from Evil is a wrenching experience; her subjects reveal to the camera almost unbearable levels of anguish, and its audience walks away feeling both numbness and rage.
Moira MacDonald
Works best when it concentrates on O'Grady and the ever-rippling effect of his transgressions. Nov 9, 2006 | Full Review…
Works best when it concentrates on O'Grady and the ever-rippling effect of his transgressions.
Desson Thomson
Deliver Us From Evil has a few things wrong with it, including an egregious musical score, but without resorting to sucker punches, it takes your breath away while making your skin crawl. Nov 2, 2006 | Rating: 3.5/4
Deliver Us From Evil has a few things wrong with it, including an egregious musical score, but without resorting to sucker punches, it takes your breath away while making your skin crawl.
Michael Phillips
A stunning indictment of institutional betrayal. It plays like a Catholic Watergate, going right to the top with hard evidence that stuns, dismays and sickens. Oct 27, 2006 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
A stunning indictment of institutional betrayal. It plays like a Catholic Watergate, going right to the top with hard evidence that stuns, dismays and sickens.
Peter Howell
The film is painful viewing, in large part because director Amy Berg relates the facts and depicts the victims and the culprits with detached gravity. Apr 23, 2009 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
The film is painful viewing, in large part because director Amy Berg relates the facts and depicts the victims and the culprits with detached gravity.
Peter Keough
Berg's intuitively right ratio of personal and analytical material, her implied belief in transcendence of horrific demoralization, shows a truly progressive vision. Aug 7, 2008 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Berg's intuitively right ratio of personal and analytical material, her implied belief in transcendence of horrific demoralization, shows a truly progressive vision.
Jonathan Kiefer
This is a powerful film that will horrify you and make you angry, if you dare to see it. Jul 26, 2007 | Rating: A | Full Review…
This is a powerful film that will horrify you and make you angry, if you dare to see it.
Robert Roten
Um relato avassalador sobre a demagogia dos altos escalões da Igreja Católica, que prefere proteger seus interesses corporativos a impedir abusos contra crianças. May 15, 2007 | Rating: 5/5
Um relato avassalador sobre a demagogia dos altos escalões da Igreja Católica, que prefere proteger seus interesses corporativos a impedir abusos contra crianças.
Pablo Villaça
A sobering look at paedophilia in the Catholic Church, Amy Berg's gripping documentary reveals disturbing facts, but even more disturbingly, about its cover up. May 13, 2007 | Full Review…
A sobering look at paedophilia in the Catholic Church, Amy Berg's gripping documentary reveals disturbing facts, but even more disturbingly, about its cover up.
Urban Cinefile Critics
Although each story is compelling, among the most heart-wrenching may be that of the Japanese-Irish couple who welcomed the new parish priest, who often slept over at their house, and who now feel responsible for letting the wolf in their door. Mar 9, 2007 | Rating: 3.5/4
Although each story is compelling, among the most heart-wrenching may be that of the Japanese-Irish couple who welcomed the new parish priest, who often slept over at their house, and who now feel responsible for letting the wolf in their door.
Duane Dudek
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