a "sober look at accusations that lend themselves to sensationalism, Amy Berg's An Open Secret looks at the sexual exploitation of teenage boys in the entertainment industry by older men...."
Flavorwire claims, "The film feels less shocking as a cult-of-celebrity document and more just quietly horrifying, as it details the trauma and the abuse of power inflicted on young men with stars in their eyes. In some ways, it’s as if Egan's lawsuit has taken some of the air out of An Open Secret, at least on the level that we're delving into it and the salacious tales that it contains; they don't look the same, seen this way."
Finally, Variety proposed, "... if Berg can find a distributor willing to brave the forces that have silenced this open secret for decades, the documentary should find avid audiences worldwide."
Indiewire described the documentary as "an incisive and utterly unflinching look at a subject too rarely scrutinized."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Open_Secret