Stunning and a rousing vote for investigative journalism

Rating: 10/10 (13 February 2016)

This movie does for the Catholic Church what "All The President's Men" did for the US Government. Both teams of journalists exposed the creeping rot within these vast institutions. Both movies deftly explain the roadblocks, the liars and lies, and the bureaucratic shams employed to keep reporters (or anyone) from finding out additional information.
I haven't had chills run up my spine like this since "The Piano." Having been in the atmosphere of the famous Santa Barbara molestation cases as a pre-teen (not a victim, but one my classmates was), I was curious to see how this wide-spread bacillus was going to be portrayed. The stunning list of scandal localities at the end of the movie demonstrates just how vast this odious practice spread.
KUDOS to ALL the actors. I do not agree with the previous critic who said that Rachel McAdams had nothing to do in the movie. She provided the quiet center and ballast to the proceedings. Two hours went by and I could have stayed for another two hours. I did think it was odd that in a theater seating 207, I was the only one at the showing.