Movie Review: “Spotlight”

The film “Spotlight” happened to win the “apples and oranges,” Academy Award as the best picture of 2015. That fact impresses me little but the film produced almost the opposite reaction.

It was superb with a fine ensemble cast that included top actors and was truly effective in detailing the journalism involved in publicizing the horrible actions and subsequent cover up involving the all powerful Catholic Church in Boston.

“Spotlight” so effectively sent reminders of other Boston based film or television all the while taking us around the great and unique city, I happened to visit last summer.

Liev Schreiber looking very much like Michael Santasieri (jr?), the latter one who works helping those with autism, gives another fine performance this as managing editor Marty Baron.

The show “Ray Donovan” starring Schreiber dealt heavily with the subject of child molestation and worse. Many of the same concepts were cited in “Spotlight.”

Without giving much if any of the movie “away,” the harsh subject manner is cited but tastefully and fairly.

The process and the journalism by a brave, dedicated group is pardon the pun, “spotlighted.”