Spotlight: A Movie that Highlights Why Movies are Made

Spotlight is the story of the Boston Globe's investigative work on uncover the Catholic Priest sexual abuse scandals in Boston and the surrounding area. It has an incredible cast highlighted by Mark Ruffalo (WISCONSIN!!), Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, and John Slattery. It's a great ensemble cast needed to carry the incredible weight of this story. It's up there with the best of investigative journalist movies, All The Kings Men, and it highlights the need for for investigative journalism to continue in our world. There are trials, tribulations, and hours and hours of hard work and labor to go through the stories, clips, and interview a LOT of people. It's a great story about hard work, teamwork, and refusing to settle. This was my favorite movie of 2015 edging out The Revenant, which was also a gorgeous film. It's impossible to say enough good things about this movie for me. Bottom Line: 9.8 out of 10. It's hard for me to think about anything I would've done differently other than a little more focus on the various victims and highlight the staggering amount of suicides stemming from the abuses. Go out and see this film. I have always had a huge amount of respect and awe for excellent investigative journalism, so maybe I'm a little high on this, but it's great stuff.