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Radiant “Spotlight” Illuminates How Boston Globe Covered Church Sex Scandal

In Reviews by PhilSaviano

NOVEMBER 2015 | LOS ANGELES TIMES — “”Spotlight” is mightily impressive not only because of the importance of the story it tells but also because of how much effort and skill went into bringing it to the screen in the best possible way. The entire “Spotlight” team understood a key tenet of the profession: If you have a good story, over-hyping it will be counterproductive.”
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Spotlight: It’s Boston Globe vs. Catholic Church

In Reviews by PhilSaviano

NOVEMBER 2015 | ROLLING STONE — “Bravo to director Tom McCarthy, who wrote the richly detailed script with Josh Singer. There’s not an ounce of Hollywood bullshit in it. Our eyes and ears are the Spotlight team, played by exceptional actors who could not be better or more fully committed.”
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Superb ‘Spotlight’ Doesn’t Turn Journalists Into Heroes

In Reviews, Spotlight-movie by PhilSaviano

Nov. 3, 2015 | BOSTON GLOBE — Actually, one of the reasons that “Spotlight” is so deeply, absurdly satisfying to this newspaper writer — and to most of those I’ve spoken with, at the Globe and elsewhere — is that Tom McCarthy’s movie doesn’t turn its journalists into heroes. It just lets them do their jobs, as tedious and critical as those are, with a realism that grips an audience almost in spite of itself.
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A Sensitive Cast Brings the Powerful ‘Spotlight’ Investigation to Life

In Reviews, Spotlight-movie by PhilSaviano

Nov. 4, 2015 | WBUR-FM — The scandal broke on Jan. 6, 2002, the Feast of the Epiphany — and what a revelation. On that Sunday, The Boston Globe Spotlight team released the first in a series of articles that would earn them a Pulitzer Prize and cast light on a story that had been festering in the dark corners of Catholic parishes around Massachusetts for decades: Priests had been molesting children while church officials knew and did nothing to stop it.
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“This Film is the Current Front Runner for Best Picture”

In Reviews, Spotlight-movie by PhilSaviano

September 15, 2015 | NEW YORK POST — My favorite film at the Toronto Film Festival is probably also the Oscar front-runner at this moment: Tom McCarthy’s “Spotlight,’’ a crackling, important account of how the Boston Globe doggedly pursued its Pulitzer Prize-winning exposé of the Catholic Church’s longtime system of covering up sexual abuse of minors by more than 100 local priests.
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