Venice Review: 'Spotlight' Wows with Stellar Ensemble Cast Led by Mark Ruffalo and Michael Keaton

Charting the Boston Globe's Pulitzer Prize-winning exposure of widespread abuse of children by Catholic priests, this terrific film should be in the running for its own writing prizes, among others, come awards season. McCarthy opens his film in the 1970s, with a scene that must have been repeated time and again while the city as a whole remained oblivious. A priest sits in a police cell, as in a nearby room a bishop placates the family whose child he has abused. The policemen on duty cynically know the outcome, which is that the priest will walk. Moving forward to 2001, we find the staff at the Boston Globe feeling the pressure of cutbacks and a new editor – moreover, one who...

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