"Spotlight" is the greatest movie about journalism ever made!

Rating: Null/10 (22 December 2015)

What's unique and extraordinary about "Spotlight" is that you never feel as if you're viewing a film. You feel you're watching real- life journalists uncover the greatest sex-abuse scandal in American history. Tom McCarthy's "Spotlight" is about the journalism heroes at the Boston Globe who told the disturbing true story of how the Catholic Church covered up the wide-scale rape and sexual assault of young kids all over the entire world. The scary thing is that the Boston Globe thought it was just in Boston that this sickening trend was occurring in, but later discovered it was all over the world, being covered up by the Vatican. Tom McCarrthy crafts this win of non-fiction perfectly, giving you the daily lives of the investigative journalists who broke the silence and did the reporting. Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, Liev Schrieber and Rachel McAdams all give amazing performances that feel so authentic and so real. Each actor studied their real life characters to the most specific detail, and the result is the absence of actors and the bringing to life of real people who did extraordinary things. "Spotlight" is a disturbing story, but a story that needs to be told, and exposes a horrible story of abuse.