Rating: 3.5/4 -- A well-acted and damning indictment of institutions and people far beyond the myopic title character. Full Review

It is a heavy series of events for any biographical film to dramatize, and HBO's film... does a crackerjack job of showing just how devastating it was. Full Review

Yes, it's interesting to watch Paterno's end as his family tries to rally around him, but there are too-few glimpses of Penn St. in his heyday, when he and others conveniently looked the other way. Full Review

I don't think that the film gives you a full perspective of what this sex scandal is, how [Paterno] was involved and how Sandusky was involved. Full Review

Rating: 2.5/4 -- The movie takes on an interesting topic but narrows it too much that it misses why the story is interesting and important. Full Review

Paterno attempts to say a lot of things about a lot of different subject matters... None of them are achieved particularly well. Full Review

Rating: A- -- 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. Full Review