UNITED STATES
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Ariel Lynch 14:35 | Friday, Nov 13, 2015
The film’s story and perspective match that sentiment throughout, focusing on the dismantling of first amendment roadblocks for the victims of sexual abuse put in place by a religious institution that most – legislative branch included – would not (and did not) think twice about challenging.
Having nailed that scene – and its attendant whiff of economic insecurity – with anthropological care, McCarthy proceeds to get everything else uncannily right, from the overstarched shirts and pleated khakis worn by the Globe’s male reporters to the drudgery of looking up old clips and cranking microfilm.
The problem of pedophiles within the priesthood was not new or unique to Boston and had been written about elsewhere; it was well-known in law enforcement and among networks of abuse survivors. Consistently gripping, Tom McCarthy’s Spotlight tells the true story of an investigation by the Boston Globe newspaper that had far-ranging implications.
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