Deliver Us from Evil (2006) Critic Reviews

Brilliant and psychologically transfixing documentary.Read the full review

Neither sensationalistic nor sentimental, Ms. Berg’s film is clear-sighted, tough-minded and devastating, a portrait of individual criminality and institutional indifference, a study in the betrayal of trust and the irresponsibility of authority.Read the full review

Not one of your pass-the-popcorn date movies. It's a howl of rage.Read the full review

It isn't often you get to meet the devil in all his glory, but here he is in Deliver Us From Evil, and his name is Father Oliver O'Grady.Read the full review

Deliver Us From Evil is so horrifying it makes "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" look like a walk in the park.Read the full review

With Deliver Us from Evil, Berg has been uncompromising in the picture she paints. She pulls no punches and makes no apologies.Read the full review

With an immediacy and intimacy that news reports can't provide, this deeply affecting documentary explores the pedophile crisis that has shaken the edifice of the Catholic Church.Read the full review

So harsh and damning is the pic toward the current Catholic leadership -- personified by Los Angeles-based Cardinal Roger Mahony, who oversaw O'Grady's stewardship at various central California parishes in the 1970s and '80s, that charges the church operates "like the Mafia" sound spot-on.Read the full review

The spellbinding power of this almost certain Oscar nominee for best documentary comes from its chilling subject matter.Read the full review