Storyline
In 2001, editor Marty Baron of The Boston Globe assigns a team of journalists to investigate allegations against John Geoghan, an unfrocked priest accused of molesting more than 80 boys. Led by editor Walter "Robby" Robinson, reporters Michael Rezendes, Matt Carroll and Sacha Pfeiffer interview victims and try to unseal sensitive documents. The reporters make it their mission to provide proof of a cover-up of sexual abuse within the Roman Catholic Church.
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Rachel McAdams, Doug Murray, Brad Borbridge, John Franchi, Richard Jenkins, Liev Schreiber, Michael Keaton, Robert Clarke, Stanley Tucci, John Slattery, Mark Ruffalo, Len Cariou, Stefanie Drummond, Donna Sue Jahier, David Fraser, Richard Fitzpatrick, Billy Crudup, Gary Galone, Patty Ross, Bruce-Robert Serafin, Brian d'Arcy James, Nancy Villone, Michael Countryman, Maureen Keiller, Neal Huff, Laurie Murdoch, Jamey Sheridan, Duane Murray, Mairtin O'Carrigan, Joe Stapleton, Paul Guilfoyle, Rob de Leeuw, Richard O'Rourke, Gene Amoroso, Michael Cyril Creighton, Laurie Heineman, Tim Progosh, Elena Wohl, Sharon McFarlane, Robert B. Kennedy, Brian Chamberlain, Tim Whalen, Martin Roach, Don Allison, Paloma Nuñez, Paulette Sinclair, Elena Juatco, Wendy Merry, Siobhan Murphy, Eileen Padua, Darrin Baker, Jimmy LeBlanc, Neion George, Zarrin Darnell-Martin, Krista Morin, Paula Barrett, Nancy E. Carroll, Anthony Paolucci, Michele Proude, Dennis Lynch, Mark McGrinder, Tom Driscoll, Jeffrey Samai, Moira Driscoll, Forrest Weber, Doreen Spencer, Janet Pinnick, Shannon McDonough, Shannon Ruth, Daniel Ruth, Jennifer Ruth, Timothy Mooney, Edward Brickley, Brett Cramp
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100
Like any creative endeavor a film is the sum of its parts. In the most elementary terms it needs a screenplay as a base, a cast to bring the script to life and a director to orchestrate the pieces into something of considerable impact. Excuse the hyperbole, but Tom McCarthy's Spotlight is an example of when all those pieces fit together almost perfectly.
100
It’s a more subtle, damning film for implicating the media – as much as the church, the courts, the legal profession and other Boston institutions – in the systematic, wider cultural cover-up it describes.
95
Spotlight is that rare journalistic procedural that deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as “All the President’s Men,” and while the movie never glamorizes or makes saints of its hard-working newsgatherers, it does stand as a reminder of the power and importance of a free press, particularly in ferreting out local corruption and malfeasance.
91
It's the best film McCarthy has ever made: restrained, intelligent and grown-up, but unfolding with the pacing and rhythm of a thriller.
90
Like so many films consumed with the minutiae of daily journalism, Spotlight is a magnificently nerdy process movie — a tour de force of filing-cabinet cinema, made with absolute assurance that we’ll be held by scene after scene of people talking, taking notes, following tips, hounding sources, poring over records, filling out spreadsheets, and having one door after another slammed in their faces.
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