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Spotlight
Cast
Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber View AllCrew
Tom McCarthy (Director), Tom McCarthy (Writer), Josh Singer (Writer) View All
Release: Nov. 6th, 2015
Runtime: 2 hours, 9 minutes
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Spotlight
Here's my review of Spotlight, definitely a must-see!
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Movies where a character or a vehicle is followed by a spotlight.
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Question about the story to Spotlight (2015)
The movie is based on a true story, but there is something I do not understand about the true story, that I was wondering if anyone could clear up. Basically in the movie, about 90 priests in Boston,...
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Spotlight: My problems with some modern-day thrillers
For a long time, I've loved to watch a very well-crafted, exciting suspenseful thriller. Especially if there's an element of mystery involved. What better way to get involved in a movie than waiting i...
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Spotlight can be written off as a film where the focus on depicting actual events (or at least depicting the discovery of actual events) and delivering a timely screed about an important subject can prevent it from coming across as a genuine classic.

The setting is the 1990's at the Boston Globe newspaper where a new editor-in-chief requests that Spotlight, a four person investigative reporting team who work completely independent of the rest of the paper and choose their own assignments, to drop their current look into Boston police corruption ....

One of the more underrated films that falls into this category, is coincidentally another Keaton film, The Paper.