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...year when films like the “The Da Vinci Code” and “Jesus Camp” have questioned the core beliefs and practices of popular religion, “Deliver Us From Evil??—a documentary about the Catholic Church’s lengthy history with pedophilia and subsequent cover-ups— turns a more realistic lens on similar subject matter. Written and directed by Amy Berg, a young journalist who said she felt compelled to make the film after Boston’s Cardinal Law scandal broke...
...Deliver Us From Evil?? is at its best when documenting O’Grady’s openly perverse and seemingly psychotic thought process, and it is also remarkably successful at revealing the destruction he left in his wake. One of the most moving scenes shows the father of one victim, Ann, questioning how and why his daughter suffered in silence for so many years. Recounting how the five-year-old had said nothing, the father breaks down and screams...
Bottom Line: The deftly written and directed “Deliver Us From Evil?? provides a timely exploration of the power dynamic between abusive clergymen and their most vulnerable parishioners...
...liberties, however, is the sometimes difficult reality that we are obligated to give a fair hearing to those with whom we strongly disagree. Khatami articulated the views of one of our country’s sworn enemies—a member of the “axis of evil??—and he was allowed to do so because the U.S., unlike Iran, is a country whose commitment to political freedoms is strong enough to permit opposition to its government’s policies...
Khatami was at the country’s helm in 2002 when Iran, along with North Korea and Iraq, was named part of an “axis of evil?? by President George W. Bush for pursuing nuclear weapons...