Synopsis
Documentary filmmaker Amy Berg investigates the life of 30-year pedophile Father Oliver O'Grady and exposes the corruption inside the Catholic Church that allowed him to abuse countless children. Victims' stories and a disturbing interview with O'Grady offer a view into the troubled mind of the spiritual leader who moved from parish to parish gaining trust ... all the while betraying so many.
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Cast
- Oliver O'GradyHimself
- Thomas P. DoyleHimself
- Pope Benedict XVIHimself (archive footage)
- AdamHimself
- Monsignor CainHimself (archive footage)
- Jane DegrootHerself
- Ann Marie JyonoHerself
Recommendations
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Entertainment Weekly
Brilliant and psychologically transfixing documentary. - 100
Christian Science Monitor
Most powerfully, Berg also films a number of O'Grady's victims as they recount their trauma and, in some cases, loss of faith. - 90
The New York Times
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. - 90
Slate
Not one of your pass-the-popcorn date movies. It's a howl of rage. - 88
USA Today
Deliver Us From Evil is so horrifying it makes "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" look like a walk in the park. - 88
TV Guide Magazine
The most infuriating revelation in Amy Berg's powerful documentary is the lengths to which current Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahoney and other church officials went to protect Father O'Grady and themselves, even though it meant knowingly delivering countless other children into a child molester's hands. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
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. - 80
Variety
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.
