Spotlight
There's been Network . All the President's Men. The Newsroom . Last year's Nightcrawler . All look at the state of the fourth estate. They have different takes, but they make us confront what we expect of journalism. Tom McCarthy 's Spotlight follows in that tradition, and it makes a powerful impact. Spotlight (written by McCarthy and Josh Singer ) tells the true story of the Boston Globe reporters who broke the Boston church sex scandal in 2002. The four-reporter team made up the paper's Spotlight division, a vertical dedicated to long-form investigative journalism. There's the self-described player–coach, Walter "Robby" Robinson (Michael Keaton), and his three tenacious team members, Mike Rezendes (Mark Ruffalo), Sacha Pfeiffer (Rachel McAdams), and Matt Carroll (Brian d'Arcy James). The Globe had covered pieces of the alleged sex scandal before, but when the new editor, Marty Baron ( Liev Schreiber ), arrives, he makes it a Spotlight pie...