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Many of the high-profile movies at TIFF this year involve seekers of the truth, who want to get to the bottom of a story that can’t be told via a Facebook post or 140-character tweet.

By: Peter Howell Movie Critic, Published on Thu Sep 10 2015

My ink-stained heart is gladdened that one of the early talking points at TIFF 2015 is Spotlight, a film about journalists unmasking Roman Catholic Church corruption.

Tom McCarthy’s engrossing procedural on the Boston Globe’s 2002 pedophile priest exposé was the film I heard mentioned most often at a pre-TIFF party Wednesday night, the “Critical Drinking” bash hosted by the Toronto Film Critics Association and sponsored by the Star.

You’d expect journalists to be captivated by a film like Spotlight, but there were also many non-journos at the event who expressed great interest in seeing it. The cast includes Michael Keaton,…