Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God

It's impossible to leave the cinema without hoping that the Papal resignation and the awful events explored here are not unrelated.

A kind of unintentional leaving gift for the outgoing Pope Benedict, though it is not one he is likely to relish.

The film shocks you to the marrow, and every frame burns with a righteous fire, itself religious in its intensity.

Impeccably researched and devastatingly tragic, Gibney's latest is a magnificent deconstruction of organized crime rather than a blatant attack on religion as one might assume a film of this nature could become.