What Binds Us As Family. One of the Top 10 Best Films of the Millennium.

Rating: 10/10 (25 March 2016)

Tom McCarthy's 'Spotlight' portrays the Boston Globe's investigative articles on the Catholic Church's cover-up of pedophile abuse by a significant percentage of its priests in the Boston area.
The movie wastes no time in it's 2 hours and 9 minutes with on-the-edge-of-your-seat pacing. Every interaction is meaningful, every character believable, as layer after layer of the Catholic churches cover-up is unfolded. It is arguably the best newspaper movie ever produced.
But the underlying relationships of the "Spotlight" investigative team that thrives as a proxy family is the element that makes this movie so appealing.
Idealic respect shared between the characters and the professional bond that the diverse personalities have for each other is laid out by McCarthy over the course of the movie. Like close siblings whose love and common bond allow for overlooking each others idiosyncrasies and grow stronger under duress, the characters navigate the religious, social, community, political and legal challenges of bringing such an impacting story to press.
The movie is nearly flawless in execution. Every facet - writing, casting, acting, direction, cinematography, and editing, mixes together to yield 2015's best picture.
Spotlight goes onto my top 10 list of best movies since 2000.