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By Camilla Long (212) for Sunday Times (UK) (753) on 18 Dec 2016

A trenchant, if slow and careful, retelling of one of The Boston Globe's greatest scoops…

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By Sara Michelle Fetters (1,688) for MovieFreak.com (1,674) on 21 Aug 2016

Spotlight giving center stage to unsung warriors for truth who understood telling the story right, without embellishment, without melodramatic…

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By Noel Murray (1,901) for Nashville Scene (147) on 03 Aug 2016

Ultimately, the story these journalists chased was about how institutional power degrades when it gets taken for granted…

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By Paddy Kehoe (74) for RTÉ (Ireland) (721) on 18 Jul 2016

Spotlight is an impressive film, not so much for any particular twists or turns in the plot, which at this stage is public record, but rather…

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By Sonny Bunch (405) for Washington Free Beacon (282) on 13 Jul 2016

Shattered Glass is still the best movie about journalists I've ever seen, but Spotlight is definitely the best movie about journalism…

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By Emma Dibdin (195) for Digital Spy (1,161) on 10 Jul 2016

As a tribute to rigorous, unglamorous, old-fashioned journalism, Spotlight is only more powerful for being released in the age of disposable…

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By Tara Thorne (211) for The Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) (715) on 10 Jul 2016

Director Tom McCarthy... knows how to make the little big, but here he makes the big little-human, with confidence and grace…

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By Max Weiss (198) for Baltimore Magazine (197) on 09 Jun 2016

Spotlight is acted and directed with great urgency -- and a little bit of necessary dread…

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By Tim Brayton (2,283) for Antagony & Ecstasy (1,911) on 04 Jun 2016

The kind of movie one recalls having really liked and admired, more than the kind of movie one compulsively re-watches…

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By Garry Mcconnachie (90) for Daily Record (UK) (215) on 26 May 2016

There are only a handful of great films based around newspapers and their investigation of real events…

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By Kong Rithdee (124) for Bangkok Post (172) on 09 May 2016

This is an ensemble piece, and each cast member complements the humming energy sparked by one another…

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By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 02 May 2016

What's perhaps most impressive about 'Spotlight' is how they're all complicated people, given the opportunity to gun it, to hesitate, to reach,…

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By David N. Butterworth (570) for Movie Boeuf (266) on 29 Apr 2016

Now this is more the Tom McCarthy (Director) we know and love…

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By Peter Calder (131) for New Zealand Herald (729) on 25 Apr 2016

This is an important film driven by a powerful, almost palpable, sense of moral urgency…

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By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Brooklyn Magazine (241) on 18 Apr 2016

Spotlight has many dramatic opportunities to break wide open into moments of outrage, but they're infrequently taken, and keyed to the tensions…

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By Nandini Ramnath (221) for Scroll.in (342) on 14 Apr 2016

Its victories are incremental and its anger against a system that wilfully hid the terrible crimes is present but rarely allowed to manipulate…

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By Mahmoud Mahdy (18) for FilmGamed (18) on 30 Mar 2016

It restores my faith in the concept of redemption to see McCarthy bouncing from The Cobbler straight to Spotlight…

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By Bill Newcott (157) for AARP Movies for Grownups (302) on 26 Mar 2016

Like the crusading journalists it honors, Spotlight forges ahead with a gripping story and doesn't stop until it gets it right…

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By Fausto Ponce (60) for Proceso (60) on 18 Mar 2016

Spotlight is an indispensable film for moviegoers and for every believer. [Full review in Spanish]…

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By Hilary A White (243) for Sunday Independent (Ireland) (504) on 16 Mar 2016

The cast is an impressive ensemble, but Spotlight's genius is in its calmly urgent take on events…

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