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Spotlight (2015)

Spotlight is about a team of specialist journalists who investigated a claim about pedophilia and
molestation against one priest, which quickly unravels to become a scandal on a national and a global level, and which involves many more priests than anyone could have possibly imagined

In an overall thought: Wow. It's such a thought-provoking movie, which reflects the struggle that people who have been abused endures in the fight to make known the sad truth. The acting was strong, particularly from Rachel McAdams (Sacha Pfeiffer) and from Mark Ruffalo (Michael Rezendes).

In particular- One thing that stood out for me was how realistic the movie appeared to be in that, it was almost like the viewer was being told that the story was on hold, and we could feel the emotions. Thanks to the amazing acting from every cast member.

I highly recommend watching this amazing film. It's a different type of film and, if you are like me, you'll contemplate not watching it after reading the description but after watching it, you'll be glad you did.

Awards ceremonies, professional critics and anyone who hasn't seen or remembered All the President's Men and 2006's Deliver Us From Evil too well are eating this up like a chocolate sundae with sprinkles, sauce, cream and three cherries on top, and I can kind of see why? I mean, it's one hell of an apology for The Cobbler, but...

While it assembles its facts well enough to provoke the interest and fear it aims to achieve, and avoids touching any sort of style that could make it come across as overtly unique, Spotlight can't help but warrant comparisons to films of its subject matter that dig deeper into the state of press journalists as human beings, let alone strike fuller fright and caution to the concept of a pedophile priest and how terrifyingly universal it is right now. Perhaps it's my developing taste in scripts that scream "give me a goddamn Oscar" that got this kind of reaction out of me, but I just wish I felt something.

*insert every single award it's ever won here* my ass, but in terms of journalistic thrillers it succeeds in its intentions besides award-nabbing far more than Truth attempted to. How this is constantly getting taken over that other Cate Blanchett film, though, I haven't the slightest clue.