Among the many appalling things about this case is the fact, duly laid out here, that authorities primarily invested in trophies either dismissed or actively covered up such allegations.

| Oct 21, 2020

The lack of a newsworthy breakthrough in the documentary doesn't make the film's emotional impact any less powerful.

| Jul 11, 2020

At the core of At the Heart of Gold is the brave testimony of scores of young women who described the trauma inflicted on them and their families.

| May 26, 2020

Powerful docu about enabling and surviving sexual abuse. HBO

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 14, 2020

These are brave, assertive people - people whose lingering pain is clear, but who don't perpetuate the cliché of the broken victim.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 30, 2019

Hopefully viewing Erin Lee Carr's documentary At the Heart of Gold will educate at least a few people as to the reality of sexual predation, as practiced by team physician Larry Nassar...

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 27, 2019

Carr has built a testament to the tenacity of these women, telling a necessary story that proves you don't need flare and pomp when you have the faces and voices and a story that needs to be told.

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 5, 2019

Hard to watch, but important to see.

| Sep 28, 2019

The #MeToo movement will be a success if it leads to social and legal change. But it'll take a lot of heart-wrenching stories like this one to get us there.

| Aug 21, 2019

It's a brutal but respectful documentary.

| Jul 1, 2019

Make no mistake, this is not easy viewing. [Erin Lee] Carr thankfully avoids giving Dr. Larry Nassar much screen time and instead lets the women and their families tell their own stories with the help of some investigative journalists.

| Jul 1, 2019

"At the Heart of Gold: Inside the U.S.A. Gymnastics Scandal," shows she [Erin Lee Carr] has the same keen eye for detail and gift for storytelling that made her father, the late David Carr, a celebrated print journalist.

| Jul 1, 2019

By turning the documentary into such a powerful forum for the resolve and resilience of these young women, [Erin Lee] Carr, in filmmaking terms, really sticks the landing.

| Jul 1, 2019

The 88-minute film succeeds where mainstream media too often failed... making full use of its feature-length canvas in pulling together the many complex threads of a story that was always bigger, and more sinister, than a single monster.

| Jul 1, 2019

It's a chilling reminder that real predators rarely look and act like movie monsters.

| May 9, 2019

Neel plays it straight aesthetically, marrying archival footage with newly recorded commentary, and it's the latter that gives "At the Heart of Gold" its gut-punching potency.

| May 5, 2019

A substantial, illuminating and frightening look at the sexual abuse done over two decades by Larry Nassar, a team doctor for USA Gymnastics.

| May 3, 2019

What Carr manages to indict in the film is both a specific environment and a more general culture disinclined to believe what women say about their own body.

| May 3, 2019

It also places a damning spotlight on the pillars that allowed Nassar not only to keep his job, but also to flourish in that environment.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 3, 2019

At the Heart of Gold: Inside the USA Gymnastics Scandalwill be one of the year's most important and essential documentaries to watch.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 2, 2019