In an era where established and once influential newspaper titles across
the world face enormous financial pressures and have been decimated by
dwindling readerships and huge staff layoffs, Tom McCarthy's “Spotlight”
is a celebration of the Fourth Estate and its ability to hold power to
account.
The film is not only about the shocking decades' long systemic sexual abuse and rape of children by Roman Catholic priests in the Boston Archdiocese and those who colluded to cover it up, but also the courage of an editor and the dedication of a small, relentless team of journalists who exposed it. By MARIANNE THAMM.
http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2016-02-07-film-review-spotlight-when-the-pen-was-mightier-than-the-catholic-church/#.Vrl79NA1eUl
The film is not only about the shocking decades' long systemic sexual abuse and rape of children by Roman Catholic priests in the Boston Archdiocese and those who colluded to cover it up, but also the courage of an editor and the dedication of a small, relentless team of journalists who exposed it. By MARIANNE THAMM.
http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2016-02-07-film-review-spotlight-when-the-pen-was-mightier-than-the-catholic-church/#.Vrl79NA1eUl
