A beautifully crafted true story

Rating: 9/10 (5 January 2016)

It doesn't seem right to review this film. It actually feels like some sort of moral infringement. This is because I feel like "Spotlight" is one of the most important non-documentary films ever made. This story had to be told and Nicole Rocklin and Blye Faust (the film's producers) couldn't have hired a better cast to tell it. Given that I was looking for film-editing that flowed together more smoothly and cinematography that was darker and more shadowy to represent the shadiness of the Catholic Church at the time. But I can easily overlook all of this films flaws because of how intense this story is. Not to mention how well all of the lead actors fit their parts. My favorite performance has to be Mark Ruffulo's. His character is so awkward and twitchy is a very subtle sense that is pretty hard to get down for any less of an actor. It didn't seem that any of the other actors had to really try to nail any impressions or anything like that. The worst thing that they could have done really is overact and that didn't happen. As a result of how most of these characters being pretty much just average, every day type people, there weren't really any performances that were really Oscar-worthy to me but again the story that this movie tells just overshadows so many flaws for me and just turns this film into an eye-opening masterpiece. I love this film's tone. It doesn't really try to glorify anyone. It doesn't try to make anyone look like a hero. It just tells the truth about what happened, which is everyone was just doing their jobs. As a result, the Catholic church was allowed to get away with a lot of sexual molestation of minors. But, ironically, it also prompted their downfall. If the journalists of the Spotlight team portrayed hadn't done their jobs correctly, who knows how long it would have taken for all of this to unfold. 'Spotlight' does not sugar- coat or over dramatize. It is a film encapsulated by realistic dialog and an attempt to tell this a true event exactly as it happen. It is in no way a film that has some sort of deep social commentary against organized religion. It doesn't try to encourage the audience to deviate from the Catholic fate or tell them what to believe. It is just a film about exposing the deepest and darkest side of supposedly one of the most holy and morally just institutions in the world.