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Spotlight

Spotlight

2015
R
129 min
Biography Crime Drama

Plot Summary

When the Boston Globe's tenacious "Spotlight" team of reporters delves 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.

8.1
IMDb Rating
97%
Rotten Tomatoes
93
Metacritic
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Ratings & Reviews

8.1
IMDb Rating
97%
Rotten Tomatoes
93
Metacritic

Technical Details

129 min
Runtime
20 Nov 2015
Release Date
R
Content Rating
Movie
Content Type
2015
Year
Genres
Biography Crime Drama

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User Reviews

Andres Gomez

7.0/10
Recent

Spotlight story is interesting and has a good cast which performs very well, but the feeling of the story is flat. First, they are talking about abuses to children but you feel almost the whole time that they are following the lead of any other story almost as bureaucrats. There is not much of sensitivity put into the matter. Second, they are exposing a huge case of system "missbehavior" (to say the least) in the Catholic Church hierarchy and you see how the whole city of Boston is treatin...

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Reno

Reno

8.0/10
Recent

> Uncovering the sins committed by whom the millions of people believe in. A documentary film would show the real faces of those offenders to shame them. That's the reason I desperately wanted it to be a documentary, then I would have definitely given a maximum mark. There's no complaint about this movie, but adaptation means fakes acting, fake settings and awards goes to non real achievers. Anyway, this movie kind looked a semi documentary and liked the way it was made. The movie exposed ...

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Nutshell

Nutshell

8.0/10
Recent

A true account of the Boston Globe's investigative reporting on the vatican's approval of sexual predator priests over many decades. Disturbing to say the least. Excellent performances from Mark Ruffalo and Michael Keaton. It's easy for movies like this to get bogged down in the details but the pacing here is remarkably fluid, just a bit over 2 hours very well spent.

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