Quite Possibly The Best Film Ever Made

Rating: 10/10 (16 November 2016)

I watch the Oscars every single year since 2010, and I've seen quite a few Best Picture Winners, so, you can guess why did I watched this one in particular, but boy, did this deliver. I didn't have many hopes about it, but a friend recommended it to me and I couldn't pass the opportunity. The cast is just great, the Spotlight team in particular, but they're all just perfect, the performances, the characters themselves, everything. First of all, we get Michael "Mike" Rezendes, played by Mark Ruffalo; an American-born Portuguese and just a very likable guy, then, we get Walter "Robby" Robinson, played by the king of Hollywood Michael Keaton; who is a natural born leader and a very resourceful investigator, then we get Sacha Pfeiffer, played by Rachel McAdams; a girl who's, actually really pretty, but not as pretty as she is smart and intelligent, later, we get Benjamin "Ben" Bradlee, Jr., played by John Slattery, a secondary character in the story and the real leader of the "Spotlight" team, Marty Baron, played by Liev Schreiber, a conspicuous lead editor of the Boston Globe, and finally, we get Matthew "Matt" Carroll, played by on-stage Shrek actor Brian d'Arcy James, who's kinda underrated and underused, James has proved to be a wonderful actor, I suggest him if he ever reads this, not to give up and to aspire bigger roles in movies. Well, we've had a great "Inciting Incident" with the prologue and a proper introduction to our characters, so what's next? The story development is just spectacular, the way the elements come together, the mystery behind the Geoghan case and many other situations of pederasty all over the world are intriguing and, dare to say it, mysterious, this was real terror, and it happened in real life. Billy Crudup as Eric MacLeish is despicable, and for me, he did his job perfectly, Stanley Tucci as Mitchell "Mitch" Garabedian was a pure curmudgeon and that fitted the character like a glove, so as you can tell, I think every single performance in the movie is great, and what's behind those performances that's great as well? Outstanding writing by Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy that actually made me feel real time was passing by, I mean, if 2 months passed in the movie, I felt like I've been watching for 2 months, and so on and so forth. I also loved McCarthy's directing and Howard Shore's score. So what's not to love about this movie? Do they solve the case? That's just to big of a spoiler to give on this review. If you haven't, go give "Spotlight" (2015) at least one viewing, it deserves more, but if you give just one, that's good.