Spotlight (2015)

2015 | USA | Tom McCarthy | ★★★★

Tom McCarthy's painfully authentic, fact-based Spotlight is a gripping, well-paced drama, packed with well-drawn characters, compelling storytelling, and fine performances from Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, et al.

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"Spotlight tells the astonishing true story of the Boston Globe’s Pulitzer Prize- winning 'Spotlight' team of investigative journalists, who in 2002 shock the city and the world by exposing the Catholic Church’s systematic cover-up of widespread pedophilia perpetrated by more than 70 local priests." 2015 Spotlight Film