Impeccably researched and devastatingly tragic, Gibney's latest is a magnificent deconstruction of organized crime rather than a blatant attack on religion as one might assume a film of this nature could become.

| Feb 9, 2020

Even in the face of such staggering evil, Gibney finds a story of simple heroism, a light cutting through widespread darkness.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 6, 2019

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

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 23, 2013

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.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 28, 2013

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

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 24, 2013

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

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 24, 2013

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.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 21, 2013

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.

| Original Score: A | Mar 20, 2013

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

| Mar 15, 2013

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

| Mar 15, 2013

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.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 6, 2013

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

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 26, 2013

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

| Feb 17, 2013

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.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 15, 2013

[A] harrowing expos 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.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 15, 2013

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

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 14, 2013

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

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 14, 2013

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.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 14, 2013

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".

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 14, 2013

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.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 14, 2013