Review of Spotlight (2015) by Benthebrownie — 09 Dec 2015

I personally didn't like this movie as much as everyone else. I'm not saying I absolutely hated the movie and I know some fan boys will see this and get extremely mad at my 7/10 rating because I guess all true “Oscar bait” stories are 10/10 flawless.

But, I had flaws with this movie so why would I give it a 10/10? Maybe I'm just that one **** that hates every single movie to ever come out. Anyways, onto the review. First off, the performances of the main cast are phenomenal, they are absolutely phenomenal.

Mark Ruffalo, (especially) Micheal Keaton and Racheal McAdams give exceptional performances that will leave you in awe. Those performances also mixed with the chemistry and at time exciting dialogue. I say “at times” because at times the pacing is slow and it seems that at that exact same time that the filler scenes/jokes come in.

When I say jokes I legitimately mean jokes. They try to make such a dark tale a comedy to such an extreme extent to where you start to notice the pauses where people were supposed to laugh. In the end, what can I say? It was Oscar Bait but it was Oscar Bait done right.