Spotlight 🗞
Happy Thursday! I hope you’ve been having a great week.
Today’s movie is Tom McCarthy’s drama Spotlight (2015)—streaming on Netflix. After great movies like The Station Agent, Win Win, and Up, director Tom McCarthy wrote and directed the worse movie of his career, The Cobbler. It’s only fitting that he followed it up with Spotlight, the film that would win him the Oscar for Best Picture in one of the most competitive Oscar races in years. Here’s the trailer.
Melancholia is the true story of how the Boston Globe investigative team uncovered a massive scandal of abuse in the Catholic Church. It is 129 minutes.
What I love about Spotlight is its measured and procedural approach to telling this true story. Without unnecessary cinematic flourishes or grandstanding speeches—save for one—we’re able to focus on the very real and very compelling process of investigative journalism. Yet, it still feels cinematic.
Like All the President’s Men and Zodiac before it, Spotlight tells an interesting sto…