UNITED STATES
TheMediaReport
David Pierre
Fabricated episodes. Character defamation. Devious storytelling. This is the definitive review of the new Hollywood movie Spotlight, which purports to chronicle the Boston Globe’s 2001-2002 investigation of the Catholic Church sex abuse story.
The heavily hyped Hollywood production – starring A-list actors Michael Keaton and Mark Ruffalo – professes to dramatize the paper’s pursuit of the troubling crimes committed by abusive priests in the Archdiocese of Boston.
However, after thoroughly studying the film, TheMediaReport.com’s Dave Pierre reports:
“Spotlight claims to be ‘based on actual events,’ but it does not bode well when the very first scene of the film is a complete fabrication.
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