Excellent Movie

Rating: 9/10 (10 January 2016)

Spotlight takes on the story of the Catholic Church's cover up of pedophile priests in Boston in 2001. A new editor, Marty Baron(Liev Schreiber), hears of what looks at first to be a small news item of a priest molesting a young boy, and decides to have the Boston Globe's Spotlight team dig deeper to see if there is a bigger story to be uncovered. Robby Robinson(Michael Keaton) leads the team of journalists in the investigation which uncovers the now well known scandal of Cardinal Law and other leaders of the church ignoring the exploding criminal activities of a shockingly large number of priests being protected and moved from parish to parish. Spotlight focuses mainly on the dogged pursuit by the hard working reporters who keep on despite the atmosphere of intimidation of the Archdiocese of Boston. Director Tom McCarthy keeps the film moving and has an excellent cast led by Michael Keaton, who is ably supported by Rachel McAdams and Mark Ruffalo as fellow Globe reporters. One of the best movies of 2015.