Nothing groundbreaking, but still fantastic

Rating: 9/10 (27 December 2017)

There's nothing especially groundbreaking here: investigative journalists uncover a big story. Imagine "All The President's Men" with abusive priests. But the ensemble's simply fantastic, and McCarthy lets them take center stage while the audience investigates alongside them. The film's rhythm is just like research/writing: small leads, longer convos, bigger patterns and the sudden connecting of dots. The story becomes so much more than the abuse scandal we already knew about. It is an affecting revelation...for the characters and the audience.