Brilliant as ever, [Al] Pacino is the master trickster who manages to both demonize and humanize Paterno.

Mr. Levinson lays this out with considerable skill and energy.

It speaks to viewers with disparate reactions, but it also speaks to anyone who didn't dig into the scandal at the time by outlining what happens when we are too quick to defend the famous faces instead of those claiming to be victimized by them.

The plot’s structuring is odd and nothing’s fleshed out enough for the audience to derive anything significant. It is a somewhat, evenhanded dramatization of true events though (sans the bits towards the end).