Excellent movie. Totally engrossing.

Rating: 10/10 (21 February 2016)

Everyone needs to see Spotlight. The writing, direction and acting are all flawless. The story is totally engrossing.
I never quite 'got' why the courts and the media are now going after the Catholic Church hierarchy, rather than going after the pedophile priests. This movie answers that question.
What it doesn't answer is why the Church hierarchy didn't just de- frock the pedophile priests, rather than move them from parish to parish. Kicking them out would have STOPPED the abuse rather than just MANAGING the abuse. It would have sent a message to other pedophile priests and actually done something to fix the problem rather than perpetuate it.
The other question I have is this: the vast majority of people in all churches and all religions are good people, doing good work with good intentions. How could Catholic Church hierarchy have allowed the pedophile priests to remain in the Church when they knew that children were being abused. How could they have allowed the children. How?