I just saw this film and I can't remember a Hollywood feature more likely to
create an impact. It notonly evokes Boston of the 1995-2005 decade with its universal distrust of public institutions and almost every aspect of Boston's social structure, but it snaps you into even more outrage at the canonisation of the presiding Pope, the superannuated retirement of Bernard Cardinal Law, who consciously protected almost 300 abusive priests, and the peculiar enthusiasm for the present Pope, who has appointed other known protectors to his inner circle. So far, the Vatican has not sued the distributors. So, what next? That's what the film makes you want to know, which is unusual, for Hollywood.
