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Variety

[movie trailer]

By Justin Chang

An HBO Documentary Films presentation of a Jigsaw production, in association with Wider Films Projects and Below the Radar Films, with the participation of Irish Film Board. Produced by Kristen Vaurio, Alex Gibney, Alexandra Johnes, Jedd Wider, Todd Wider. Executive producers, Lori Singer, Jessica Kingdon, Sheila Nevins. Co-producer, Sloane Klevin. Directed, written by Alex Gibney.

With: Terry Kohut, Gary Smith, Pat Kuehn, Arthur Budzinski, Jeff Anderson, Rembert Weakland, Thomas Doyle, Richard Sipe, Patrick J. Wall, Geoffrey Robertson, Laurie Goodstein, Jason Berry, Robert Mickens, Marco Politi. Voices: Jamey Sheridan, Chris Cooper, Ethan Hawke, John Slattery. Narrator: Alex Gibney. (English, Italian, American Sign Language dialogue)

Weaving a uniquely devastating account of priestly pedophilia into an excoriating indictment of the entire Vatican power structure, “Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God” is an expansive and authoritative study of the widespread practice…