Catchy story, but the film...

Rating: 6/10 (1 September 2016)

Earlier in my life I would instantly "rate" a film after having seen it, based on feelings it invoked to me. Nowadays I tend to ask myself a question: "what is it that will make me remember this?".
Unfortunately for this movie after seeing it, I think that the overwhelming issue, the elephant in the room, remains the very subject that this film is occupied with in general. Almost nothing you see in this movie will "stay" with you.
Very nice cast, very nice acting all in all, but story and character building is "flat" in my humble opinion. I never gotten to feel something for some character: not enough sympathy for the newspaper team (not threatened or risky enough - they didn't have to sacrifice anything), not enough dislike or wish for vengeance towards priests/Archbishop (did not actually see/hear their demeanor or reaction to this - just reported attitude), not even particularly sorry for the victims (just not convincing enough).
A few years from now I think I will probably just remember that some journalists in Boston uncovered a lousy pedophilia scandal within the Catholic Church. And although pedophilia is a vast, shocking problem, well, you knew that before seeing this film.