...et spændende og gennemgribende velspillet drama, som får lagt den helt rette vægt på paradokset i, at en skandale af så stort omfang kunne udspille sig i årtier i en by så stor som Boston uden at komme op til overfladen.

...McCarthy [renser] dramaet fra falske toner og sender skuespillerne ind til kernen af deres figurers menneskelighed med minimalismen som rettesnor.

Exceptional, as always, with his actors, McCarthy has made a true ensemble drama, with nary a bum note in the sprawling cast.

...with all its pain and urgency, is a pure celebration of journalists doing what they do best.

...its tone is led by its characters, moving from scepticism to revelation and the uncomfortable sense that we should all feel guilty for ignoring the secrets too hard to acknowledge.