Spotlight, or, All The Boston Diocese's Men

Posted by Road Warrior (A) on November 17, 2015 at 13:35:12

Spotlight just showed up here in limited release. This is a tight, beautifully edited and acted, investigative thriller. The story is successfully told in the style of All The President Men. Warning, Basic (not detailed) plot spoilers follow:

This is the story of a group of journalists, assigned to the the Boston Globe's "spotlight" investigative team, who, under the direction of a new managing editor, peel back the layers of the onion exposing the rotten core lying inside.

Managing(?) editor is played perfectly by Liev Schreiber, a serious man of few words who's new on the job and anxious to steer the Spotlight away from traditional political corruption investigations onto what he thinks is the more fertile ground of possible pedophile abuse by Boston priests. Investigate away they do.

The reporters are played by Mark Rufallo in one of his best performances (not a fan of his usually but great here), Rachel McAdams, playng the female on the team adequately, and Brian D'arcy James. Excellent supporting performances turned in by their boss, Michael Keaton, John Slattery, well cast as editor Ben Bradlee Jr., an almost unrecognizable Stanley Tucci as an always busy don't have time for you plaintiffs' lawyer, Billy Crudup as the slippery asst. D.A. who seems to know a whole lot more than he's letting on, and a host of others.

The movie does a great job of believably compressing what must have been 6-9 months of investigation into its 2h8m running time. Highly recommended and it may well be the best of the big releases that have been out since early fall.

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Topic - Spotlight, or, All The Boston Diocese's Men - Road Warrior 13:35:12 11/17/15 (2)

Just saw it - spoiler alert... - mkuller 23:05:23 11/28/15 (0)

"No Jews or Protestants were harmed during the making of this film." - Billy Wonka 17:42:25 11/21/15 (0)

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