Powerful and Lacking Ever in a Dull Moment

Rating: 8/10 (7 March 2016)

Spotlight is based off of the true story of when a newspaper company decides to take the story of a Catholic priest molesting children and investigates it to score a big story for their paper. It won best picture of 2015, and I'm happy to say that it was very deserving of that award. While I don't think it's the best movie of the year, I'm happy that a solid movie like this won.
The plot of Spotlight is very well-executed. I took a break while watching this movie to get something to eat, and I was preparing my food as quickly as possible. I wanted to get back to this movie so bad. Sure, it's a little bit slower at the beginning, but it's not boring at all or anything, and as soon as it takes off, it soars. The pacing in this movie is fantastic, made all the better by how good the story is. Part of the reason why it's so engaging is because of how crazy the story is. The fact that this all happened and probably still is is hard to believe, and that makes it all the more interesting. Tom McCarthy made the right choice in making a movie about this particular topic, otherwise it probably wouldn't have been as interesting.
The characters are pretty good. Through regular dialogue we get a good sense of who they are, without going too in-depth into their pasts and experiences and all that stuff. While it does work to do that, in a movie like this it really isn't important. Nobody cares what happened when you were a child, unless you were molested by a priest of course. The dialogue is realistic and the characters are realistic as well.
Overall Spotlight is a great movie. While I wouldn't say that it's perfect, it's very well done, and I can see anyone saying that this is a perfect movie. In the end I would certainly recommend this movie to pretty much anyone.