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Howard ShoreCast:
Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, John Slattery, Brian d'Arcy James, Stanley Tucci, Doug Murray, Sharon McFarlane, Jamey Sheridan (more)VOD (3)
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Starring Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams and Michael Keaton, Spotlight tells the gripping true story of a team of Boston Globe reporters who launch a fearless investigation into child abuse allegations against the Catholic Church. What they eventually uncover is a shocking citywide scandal; almost ninety priests guilty but never convicted, legal settlements done in private, and a systematic cover-up of the abuse by church leadership. Determined to leave no stone unturned in their hunt for the truth, their investigation soon threatens to bring down some of the city's most powerful figures. Capturing the high-pressure world of in-depth reportage, Spotlight is a smart, thrilling depiction of journalism at its best. (Entertainment One)
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An incredible surprise in how the film is shot with great acting performances. The actors don't unnecessarily draw attention to themselves but act in a way that highlights an incredibly strong theme, showing the corruption of society, primarily American, and its integration of faith into life. But this can be applied to other topics as well. If any film deserves an Oscar, it's Spotlight.
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I just have a soft spot for these chamber dramas. Especially when I feel like I'm not wasting my time watching them because it gives me something. Whether it's quality entertainment or new knowledge. More films like this and I'll like that American cinema a lot more. The actors act because they have something to act. And that's the best part.
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An investigative conversation film par excellence. An ambitious and confident work that must make all Catholic priests clench their asses (sorry). But lest this be mistaken for ugly cynicism, there were two tremendously moving moments where not one of my eyes remained dry. I don't like generalizations and collective assignment of blame to any group, because almost everything is about specific people in the first place. So, although I’m a resolved atheist, I don't condemn faith or religion as a whole, but "only" their institutions. For these have failed in the first place and are only made up of people anyway. Spotlight is an extremely important film, given the seriousness of the subject matter, and it's terribly good that it was made. "Don't thank me, just get these assholes, will ya?"
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Crime investigation is surely an interesting thing, but once the movie is based solely on that (and there’s far too much talking, too) then it’s really hard to get into it. However, I must admit that Mark Ruffalo was absolutely unparalleled. I liked him the most out of the list of interesting actors. And the story? It’s almost unbelievable. It’d be different if it were a single person, but a whole group of people? And the end credits with the list of churches all around the world that were involved in this prove that it isn’t just an American issue. That makes it even more terrifying…
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Procedural minimalist journalistic drama par excellence, which is about journalism and journalists as much as about the topic of that coverage. In a way, it's a movie coverage, how an honest investigative coverage is made, rather than a journalistic thriller that you might have expected based on what the coverage is about and what it reveals. With few exceptions proving the rule, no room for background or personal issues. Only a few months of obtaining source after source, confirming the credibility of sources, documents, statistics, statements, spending endless hours in the archives, and gradually completing the puzzle piece by piece until a complete disturbing picture emerges. Whoever likes this way of brief portraying things where the events are observed from distance, will clearly enjoy it. It called for being captured and build purely on that case, to focus more on the emotions or the priests, the Church and the victims, and the genre rules of the journalistic thriller could be respected, but there are other movies to do this job. And it is precisely this seeming impartiality and civility that makes it even more impressive and, as a result, more disturbing, as only the simple facts can do, and how it could have never been achieved by too emotional movie.
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