Even the Catholic Church itself, has praised the movie!

Rating: 9/10 (9 December 2015)

'SPOTLIGHT': Four and a Half Stars (Out of Five)
This year's Academy Awards Best Picture frontrunner, is this critically acclaimed drama film; directed and co-written (with Josh Singer) by Tom McCarthy. It stars Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, John Slattery, Liev Schreiber, Brian d'Arcy James and Stanley Tucci. The film tells the true story of the Boston Globe's 2001 'Spotlight' team of investigators, which uncovered decades of sexual abuse, towards minors, by Catholic priests; and the Church's cover-up of the crimes. The film deserves all of it's praise; it's one of the year's best!
The Boston Globe's 'Spotlight' team, is the longest running newspaper investigation team, in the US. In 2003, they earned the paper a 'Pulitzer Prize for Public Service'; for uncovering decades of child molestation abuse, involving 87 priests in Boston alone, and the Catholic Church's despicable cover-up of the crimes. This film tells that story; and it centers around journalists Walter Robinson (Keaton), Michael Rezendes (Ruffalo), Sacha Pfeiffer (McAdams), Ben Bradley Jr. (Slattery), Matt Carroll (James) and Marty Baron (Schreiber).
The film's cast is awesome; especially Keaton (who more than deserves another Oscar nomination, for his performance). The script is brilliant, and the directing is superb (which is a little odd, since McCarthy also co-wrote and directed 'THE COBBLER', earlier this year; which wasn't nearly as good). The movie isn't especially entertaining, or even greatly moving; but it is a very important film (and it's always involving and interesting to watch). Even the Catholic Church itself, has praised the movie; for it's honesty and compassionate treatment of the material. It's definitely a film everyone should see.
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