5 Years Later Spotlight is Still Great and Relevant

Rating: 10/10 (15 February 2020)

I just watched the movie again, in 2020. The message is perhaps more relevant now: the need for searching, patient, in depth journalistic research and stories, especially when challenging authority, powerful institutions and ingrained assumptions. The film is fascinating, low key but suspenseful even though you know the story...and the fact that, almost two decades after the Boston Globe published its series on the cover-up by the highest levels of the Boston Catholic diocese of decades of sexual abuse of children by nearly 100 priests, it is still reverberating worldwide today. The script, direction and acting are excellent. Can't wait to see a film soon about how dogged, moral, heroic journalists bring down the current corrupt presiden and his enablers.