Great film that is documentary-like and has its shortcomings

Rating: 8/10 (25 May 2016)

First of all, let me state that this film depicts in great detail the American side of the sexual abuse of the catholic church. The story is interesting, well acted, engaging and original. I agree with the comments on the lack of development of the characters in the story.
One of this film's shortcomings as I see it however, is the lack of any mention of scandals in the catholic church on the same subject. How is it that the reporters do not refer even once to similar large-scale stories, for example in Ireland, Canada or other countries? By the time the Boston Globe reporters researched this story, nation-wide cases similar to this one had already come to light. The thing that disappoints me in this story, is the American based chauvinism that is trying to tell its viewers that Boston Globe was the first independent group of journalists that ever researched anything like this. This is strongly supported by the credits at the end of the film.
Overall an appealing, documentary-like story with little character development, 8/10.