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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Radiant “Spotlight” Illuminates How Boston Globe Covered Church Sex Scandal
“Spotlight” and Its Revelations
DECEMBER 2015 | THE NEW YORKER — “Since seeing the movie “Spotlight,” about the Boston Globe investigation of sexual abuse and coverups in the Catholic Church, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it and the questions it raises—about how far institutions will go to protect themselves, about who we listen to and protect, about who and what we ignore, about the power of disclosure and even conversation.”
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Film Review: Spotlight
Nov. 2, 2015 | FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL — Riveting account of the Catholic Church sex-abuse scandal in Boston and the newspaper journalists who reported it.
Superb ‘Spotlight’ Doesn’t Turn Journalists Into Heroes
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. READ REVIEW
A Sensitive Cast Brings the Powerful ‘Spotlight’ Investigation to Life
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. READ AND LISTEN TO REVIEW
Survivors of Clergy Sexual Abuse Discuss How ‘Spotlight’ Portrayed Their Trauma
October 2015 | BOSTON GLOBE — “Ann Hagan Webb didn’t expect to get emotional while watching Spotlight for the first time. As a survivor of sexual abuse by a Catholic priest, she had already lived through the events depicted in the film. But Webb found herself feeling completely overwhelmed as she observed how The Boston Globe’s Spotlight team of investigative journalists personally reacted to uncovering the systemic problem of clergy sexual abuse.”
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2015 | Phil Saviano on the Story That Inspired New Movie ‘Spotlight’
October 2015 | SNAP New England leader talks with UK reporter about his childhood abuse, how having AIDS in 1992 freed him up to find the courage to go public with his story of abuse, and also how he feels about having actor Neal Huff portray him in the Spotlight movie.
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“This Film is the Current Front Runner for Best Picture”
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. READ REVIEW