UNITED STATES
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 19, 2015 • By Calvin Wilson
Walter “Robby” Robinson (Michael Keaton) isn’t sure what to expect from Marty Baron (Liev Schreiber), the newly appointed editor-in-chief of the Boston Globe. Robinson is the leader of Spotlight — a team of journalists devoted to time-consuming and labor-intensive investigations — and he’s concerned that Baron might be a cost-cutter who’s out to dismantle it.
Baron has no such goal. An outsider to Boston, his interest is in surmising the lay of the land and, if necessary, shaking things up. And he’s barely had time to settle into his office when he suggests a project for Spotlight: looking into cases involving pedophile priests, and the role of the Catholic Church in protecting them.
Robinson is all too aware that, in a city that’s largely Catholic, the story is a powder keg. But it’s also a story for which the Globe must take responsibility, even if it does so belatedly.
Against a backdrop of opposition explicit and implied, reporters Mike Rezendes (Mark Ruffalo), Sacha Pfeiffer (Rachel McAdams) and Matt Carroll (Brian d’Arcy James) set out after the truth. And Robinson grapples with his own culpability in helping to perpetuate sexual abuse.
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