Spotlight review
Writer/director Tom McCarthy together with co-writer Josh Singer delve into recent history with a detailed examination of an investigation by the Boston Globe which began in the early 2000s. The subject was potential clerical child sexual abuse in the Boston area and the ramifications for the country and the Catholic church were significant.
It’s all the more impressive then that Spotlight is, for the most part, a quiet and measured film. It’s about a team of professional journalists and investigators who discover what might be the biggest story of their careers and, instead of posting a sensational headline for immediate gratification, spend months and years verifying sources, checking data and building the kind of story they can stand by.
