Review of Spotlight

Film about the Catholic Church's cover-up of paedophile priests and the eventual exposure in the Boston Globe...oddly flat and disjointed, and seeming to miss every opportunity for tension or drama. Even the bad guys aren't very bad - in so far as they are even visible. No flashbacks to the events that are being investigated. Just lots of shots of offices - lawyers' offices, newspaper offices, court archive offices...No-one seems to warn the journalists or the editor off from publishing the story, or any of the usual liberal media drama plot points.

Watched via laptop and informal distribution.