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By Javier Ocaña (196) for El Pais (Spain) (511) on 07 Feb 2016

The film is a professional and moral guide on the exercise of the journalistic work. [Full Review in Spanish]…

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By Matthew Toomey (680) for ABC Radio Brisbane (680) on 06 Feb 2016

This is clearly one of the year's best films and the performances of the cast cannot be faulted…

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By Amy West (93) for International Business Times (181) on 05 Feb 2016

In 2001, The Boston Globe Spotlight team told this story in the right way, now in 2016, McCarthy has done the exact same thing…

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By Matthew Taylor (3) for Sight and Sound (827) on 05 Feb 2016

The uniformly strong ensemble cast largely avoids any grandstanding moments, and manufactured drama is swerved, while Howard Shore's sober…

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By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 05 Feb 2016

This film demonstrates that you don't need guns to make an exciting thriller…

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By David Stratton (799) for The Australian (781) on 05 Feb 2016

Spotlight is a celebration of the freedom of the press, a riveting story of investigative journalism and of the role played by The Boston Globe…

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By Anaid Ramírez (34) for Time Out México (51) on 04 Feb 2016

Spotlight is a tense story and a critic to the system and for some moments disguises itself as a journalism class. [Full Review in Spanish]…

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By Kevin Maher (647) for Times (UK) (2,458) on 04 Feb 2016

This is the story of the Pulitzer prize-winning team of Boston Globe journalists who early in 2002 lifted the lid on a clerical abuse epidemic…

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By Rob Gonsalves (1,031) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 04 Feb 2016

Decently, it focuses on the victims, and why there continued to be victims for so long…

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By Matt Wolf (69) for The Arts Desk (640) on 03 Feb 2016

Spotlight exists to shine a searchlight on a moment from history that human behaviour tragically refuses to leave consigned to the past…

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By Craig Mathieson (459) for The Sunday Age (488) on 03 Feb 2016

It has a subtle but unsparing aesthetic; the most powerful camera shot is to slowly pull back from a busy desk, silently indicating the story's…

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By Edward Lawrenson (138) for The Big Issue (129) on 03 Feb 2016

This is narrative film-making stripped of unnecessary detail or fabricated sentiment, and it's all the better for it: Spotlight is absorbing…

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By Rob Carnevale (227) for Indie London (156) on 01 Feb 2016

Spotlight is, without question, one of the best films of the year and a hands-down must-see…

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By Anthony Morris (102) for sbs.com.au (697) on 01 Feb 2016

With the story's result already known, much of the suspense comes from seeing the characters' slowly dawning realisation of just how big this…

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By Alistair Harkness (1,042) for Scotsman (1,471) on 31 Jan 2016

A gripping and exciting thriller - no mean feat considering the action mostly revolves around an elaborate paper chase in locales as exotic…

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By David Sexton (322) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 31 Jan 2016

How rare is this? A true story so much worth the telling that it needs no embellishment, no sideshow…

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By Henry Fitzherbert (699) for Daily Express (UK) (2,141) on 31 Jan 2016

The picture manages to avoid the cliches of the genre by refusing to lionise its crusaders or demonise the villains and is all the more authentic…

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By Allan Hunter (1,486) for Daily Express (UK) (2,141) on 31 Jan 2016

Spotlight is the kind of completely absorbing film that makes you think, makes you feel and keeps you on the very edge of your seat…

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By Mark Kermode (1,002) for Observer (UK) (2,398) on 31 Jan 2016

With McCarthy dialling it down in the director's chair, it's left to the players to provide the fireworks and they duly rise to the challenge…

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By Donald Clarke (1,051) for Irish Times (1,391) on 30 Jan 2016

The sense we have is of dedicated professionals getting the job done with the minimum of egotism or indulgence…

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