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Deliver Us From Evil (2006)
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Reviews Counted:68
Fresh:68
Rotten:0
Average Rating:8.3/10
Consensus: 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.
Runtime: 1 hr 41 mins
Genre: Education/General Interest
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: Director Amy Berg helms this shocking documentary, which looks at the activities of a priest named Oliver O'Grady. O'Grady had been identified by the Catholic church as a pedophile, but they... Director Amy Berg helms this shocking documentary, which looks at the activities of a priest named Oliver O'Grady. O'Grady had been identified by the Catholic church as a pedophile, but they allowed him to continue to work and molest children throughout the 1970s. Berg draws on interview footage of O'Grady and his victims to tell the unsettling tale. DELIVER US FROM EVIL was nominated for an Academy Award in 2007. [More]
Director: Amy Berg
Director: Amy Berg
Producer: Amy Berg, Frank Donner, Hermas Lassalle, Matthew Cooke
Studio: Lions Gate Films
Reviews for Deliver Us From Evil
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.
Some films make you think, some make you cry, and others make you cringe. "Deliver Us From Evil," which catalogs the destruction caused by a child-molesting Catholic priest, inspires all three reactions.
Deliver Us Evil is more terrifying than any horror movie, because it's about something that really happened.
In a major coup, director Amy Berg convinced O'Grady to appear in [Deliver Us From Evil], and his testimony reveals a man who's chillingly divorced from the full weight of his actions.
Grander statements aren't needed when the specific indictments are so plentiful and so horrifying.
Devastating ... Heaven only knows why Deliver Us from Evil is only playing at a handful of theaters around the country. For one of the most important films of the year, it's shocking to discover that there's no room at the inn.
Former CBS and CNN producer Amy Berg delves with piercing intelligence into one of most shocking scandals that has rocked the Catholic Church in recent years.
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.
Most powerfully, [Berg] also films a number of O'Grady's victims as they recount their trauma and, in some cases, loss of faith.
Um relato avassalador sobre a demagogia dos altos escalões da Igreja Católica, que prefere proteger seus interesses corporativos a impedir abusos contra crianças.
The great tragedy underlying the story of Father O'Grady is how many children might not have been victims, had Cardinal Roger Mahoney ... been more interested in protecting the children residing in his diocese rather than furthering his own ascendancy wit
One of the most shocking and disturbing films this year, it's hard to rave about a movie that makes you so angry.
O'Grady's ongoing inability to comprehend what he's done or even what happened to him underscores the film's most terrible truth: The cycle of abuse is ongoing.
What makes this film so worthy is the understanding it gives us both of the wolf in sheep's clothing and of the betrayal of trust.
A documentary with the power to affect even the most jaded of moviegoers.
Deals with emotionally charged material, so it should surprise no one that it includes one of the most wrenching moments ever captured on film.
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