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Spotlight
Spotlight is one of the best movies of the year, even if it was literally unnoticed. It is the kind of realistic look to the biggest scandals in the world we would like to see more often.
Spotlight is centered on the child molestation scandal which shook the Catholic Church to its roots – it is the story of the Boston Globe journalists who discovered the cover up and told the world the truth as it was. And the movie’s main asset is that it doesn’t transform its protagonists into heroes of any kind. Just like any other, they were simple, normal men and women who took their job seriously.
The cast is a stellar one: Mark Ruffalo (MCU’s Hulk), Michael Keaton (Burton’s Batman), Rachel McAdams (one of the stars of the upcoming Doctor Strange), John Slattery (Howard Stark in Iron Man 2), Stanley Tucci (The Hunger Games), Liev Schreiber (X-Men Origins: Wolverine), and Billy Crudup (Watchmen).
See Spotlight and you will find it hard to believe that the same director (Tom McCarthy) helmed one of 2015’s worst movies as well (The Cobbler). See Spotlight and you will find the same excitement, enthusiasm and depression all real journalists feel.
