The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.
Tom McCarthy’s impeccably executed newsroom drama boasts an all-star ensemble.
A rigorously detailed telling of an important story that never loses sight of the human devastation. Terrific turns from the ensemble cast.
A grown-up film about serious people that mercifully escapes any awards-grabbing platitudes, this is more thrilling than most action movies.
Old-style journalism triumphs in the story of the real-life team who knocked on doors and scoured the cuttings library to reveal a scandal that may have begun centuries ago.
Spotlight is an old-fashioned film that tells its story in a painstaking and thoroughly absorbing fashion.
Spotlight is the kind of completely absorbing film that makes you think, makes you feel and keeps you on the very edge of your seat.
Beautifully acted.
Tom McCarthy’s solid newsroom drama gets behind the headlines of the child abuse scandal that rocked Boston’s Catholic community in 2002.
The performances are unshowy but riveting.
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