This year’s breakout hit is already generating lots of well-deserved Oscar buzz. Director/Writer Tom McCarthy (The Visitor, The Station Agent) helms a superbly-told dramatic account of the team of Boston Globe reporters (Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams) known as Spotlight, who doggedly pursue the Catholic Church’s decades long cover-up of more than 90 pedophile priests. Newly arrived editor Marty Baron (Liev Schreiber) assigns the story and refuses to be intimidated, even in a town where the Church is sacrosanct and launching an investigation is akin to blasphemy. The entire cast delivers top-notch performances in the most emotional and explosive story of investigative journalism since All the President’s Men.
(USA, 2015) 128 minutes
