The Kansas City Star has Grant Gallicho’s review of “Deliver Us From Evil” that we ran last week.

(Grant’s Commonweal blog can be found here)

Grant (the associate editor over at Commonweal) says the film suffers from bias and misinformation, not to mention a few so-called “theologians” who are really paid consultants to victims’ lawyers.

Nonetheless, the film is getting buzz, and so is Grant’s review:

A sober movie that asks tough questions, offers incisive portraits of victims and perpetrators, and conveys the necessary context should be mandatory viewing for bishops. Regrettably, “Deliver Us From Evil” is not that film. Rather, its biases and arguments are mirror images of the ones deployed by those who defend the church’s behavior in the abuse scandal.

The centerpiece of the movie is Berg’s stomach-turning interviews with O’Grady, an admitted abuser. But when the film tries to tell the wider story of clergy abuse, it relies almost entirely on commentators with ties to victims’ advocacy groups – especially plaintiffs’ attorneys – who have a vested interest in some facts and conveniently ignore others.