Worthy to stand alongside All the President’s Men as a great newspaper movie, the Oscar-winning Spotlight chronicles the dogged efforts in 2001/02 by a team of reporters from the Boston Globe to expose the Roman Catholic Church’s cover-up of systemic child sex abuse by priests. There’s nothing flashy about the film, but its sober treatment of the story proves absolutely riveting.
Director and co-writer Tom McCarthy handles the complex story with forensic clarity and he gets terrific ensemble performances from his cast, headed by Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton and Rachel McAdams as three of the investigating journalists on the Globe’s Spotlight team. The Globe earned a Pulitzer Prize for its efforts and the filmmakers were similarly rewarded, winning Oscars for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay.
Certificate 15. Runtime 129 mins. Director Tom McCarthy
Spotlight is available on Blu-ray, DVD & Download from Entertainment One.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw91E4-DcFE
