Overall, a riveting and brave film that does wonders with a difficult subject matter. Brian D'Arcy James are up to their level. Michael Keaton's performances here and in the previous year's 'Birdman' are his best in years, a very commanding turn. Both Mark Ruffalo and Rachel McAdams give career-best performances worthy of award recognition, particularly Ruffalo. The music fits beautifully, 'Spotlight's' script and story are engrossing and quietly intelligent and the characters are written compellingly. Other strengths are the way it's filmed, it's very atmospheric and evocative in its detail and the cinematography is gritty and ravishing. Tom McCarthy's direction has all the class and professionalism that 'Spotlight' needed. While it is a deliberate and relatively slow-paced film, it didn't leave me bored for a second, instead gluing me in with its excellent performances across the board, how it tells its story, it's beautifully balanced screenplay and sheer class. It also never feels mawkish or preachy, traps that it also could have fallen into. It took on a very heavy subject, that is still very much relevant today, and does it in a way that's riveting with a strong emotional core, strong insight that illuminates and tells of stuff that we didn't know (that leaves us shocked and very angry) and not fall into the trap of having too much of things that we knew already. Even if it didn't do much for me, which it did, it would still be appreciated for what it set out to do and would have been applauded for trying. 'Spotlight' to me was a very worthy Best Picture winner.
Overall, a great film made greater because the folks making it really, really seemed to care and wanted to get it right.which showed great sensitivity for the subject matter and the victims. Additionally, the film has a relatively slow and deliberate pace-again as they weren't interested in making a pretty or Hollywoodizing the production. Normal looking actors (such as Michael Keaton and Mark Ruffalo) are used.and they make efforts to keep them normal looking. Instead of focusing on making money with the film and including the usual glitz and glamour, the filmmakers chose instead to emphasize realism above all else.
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Why did I give the film a 10.particularly since I almost never give films such high scores? Well, the reason is that the folks making the movie really, really cared about the subject matter and getting it right. But the film doesn't just talk about so much that we know to be true today but it covers the stop by step process by which the paper began and completed the investigation. In other words, even the beloved Cardinal Bernard Law KNEW about the many, many victims and yet did nothing to discipline them or restrict their access to more victims. The story is about not only the discovery of a huge number of pedophile priests in the Boston parish by Boston Globe reporters but the organization's discovery that the problem went all the way to the top. I know that in my case, it was particularly tough because I am a retired psychotherapist and used to specialize in working with sexual abuse victims and perpetrators.the latter, which, I think benefit very little from treatment (which is much of the reasons I changed careers). But it's also a difficult film to watch-particularly if you or someone close to you has been a victim of sexual abuse. It isn't because I think it's a bad film-it's amazingly good. Before you consider watching "Spotlight", I STRONGLY urge you to think twice.
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