Journalists have suffered harshly at the hands of Hollywood scriptwriters and directors over the years but in Spotlight, they are the heroes of this superb film.
I felt proud to be part of the noble professional after watching this outstanding piece of cinema.
It follows a dedicated team of reporters at the Boston Globe newspaper in 2002 when they broke open the scandal of alleged sexual violation of minors by Catholic priests and subsequent cover-up by the church hierarchy in Boston.
The arrival of a new editor-in-chief in Marty Baron (Liev Schreiber) is the catalyst.
He asks the gun investigative team, called Spotlight, to look into whether the case of paedophilia linked to one defrocked priest John Geoghan is not an isolated instance.
