Another Spotlight on Bureaucratic Cover Up

Rating: 9/10 (8 November 2015)

We tend to see trends in theme hitting movie theaters around the same time. This usually has something to do with where our national focus or collective social consciousness lies. For example, with all the talk recently about marriage equality and racism and the #blacklivesmatter campaign, we are seeing a number of movies about the fight for a group's individual rights such as Suffragette and Freeheld. With international tensions mounting over possible nuclear arms in North Korea we are seeing Cold War era films such as Bridge of Spies and Pawn Sacrifice. Or Trumbo, which deals with both of those themes! What, then, is it about large-scale bureaucratic cover up that is drawing our attention? I'm not sure, but Truth is currently playing which tells the story of the military hiding discrepancies in President George W. Bush's service history and Snowden is scheduled to be released soon, a narrative feature chronicling the Edward Snowden scandal that was captured so wonderfully in last year's Oscar winning documentary Citizenfour. Even Steve Jobs is about one man taking credit for the work of an entire team, in effect covering up their contribution by means of bureaucratic red tape. It has also given us Spotlight, the gripping new film to hit theaters about the investigative journalism at The Boston Globe that uncovered the world-wide pedophilic scandal within the Catholic Church. And, true to its theme, the star of Spotlight is not any member of the stunning cast, but the investigation itself.
Based on actual events, the screenplay co-written by Josh Singer (The Fifth Estate, Fringe) and Tom McCarthy (The Cobbler, The Visitor), who also directs, follows the Spotlight team at The Boston Globe. Spotlight is an elite department made up of four investigative journalists who take their time in breaking major stories, exhausting every resource before printing the article. In 2001, it is brought to their attention that...
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