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Spotlight

2015 • 128 minutes
4.5
539 reviews
97%
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About this movie

SPOTLIGHT tells the riveting true story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe investigation that would rock the city and cause a crisis in one of the world’s oldest and most trusted institutions. When the newspaper’s tenacious “Spotlight” team of reporters delve into allegations of abuse in the Catholic Church, their year-long investigation uncovers a decades-long cover-up at the highest levels of Boston's religious, legal, and government establishment, touching off a wave of revelations around the world. Directed by Academy Award-nominee Tom McCarthy, SPOTLIGHT is a tense investigative thriller, tracing the steps to one of the biggest crime stories in modern times.

Ratings and reviews

4.5
539 reviews
Matthew Dobbs
July 28, 2016
Its up there with that 70s masterpiece! Full of shock and suspense this is a great intelectual triumph! I did not realise the true life link with 'Truth', a movie which is not as good as this!
Aaron West
May 29, 2016
The most damning and sickening movie of religious depravity, combined with twisted bureaucracy of all time. How and why is this not a universal scandal that rocks the foundations of peoples understanding of the church? I'm baffled at humankinds thinking. These are not men of God, but just men! Very very sick men. Go Spotlight!!
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Jonathan Seyghal
January 27, 2017
Surprised I liked it so much, but it was somehow gripping until the end and the performances were great; especially from Ruffalo and Schreiber