Batman and The Hulk take on the Catholic Church

Rating: 8/10 (12 February 2016)

A film given a 15 certificate on its theme alone, Spotlight tells the story of a group of reporters from the Boston globe who shine a light on the "degenerate clergy" of Boston soon becomes uncovered as a global injustice.
The sophisticated and unflinching screenplay is packed to the brim with powerful dialogue that drives this film, delivering the emotion and motivation of the victims and spotlight reporters alike.
Acting is great, Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo and Rachel McAdams put a lot of time and work into making their portrayals of the real life people behind the story as accurate as possible, spending a lot of time with the Boston journalists on and off set.
This film is so powerful and unnerving, and having had a catholic upbringing but not being particularly religious, I find the film even more relatable and shocking when finding out about how widespread this issue was and how corruption actually came from the top down. But the single most surprising and frankly disgusting thing about the whole thing was Cardinal Law's consequence in the end credits. A promotion to Rome. That's right he got promoted for covering up several child molestation cases against priests. I left the theatre speechless after that.
Spotlight is a fantastic movie. The film is like the actual article(s) that was written by the Boston Globe on this topic; a controversial issue about upsetting and unsettling subject matter that ultimately had to made for the public to see.