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Toronto Star
Many of the high-profile movies at TIFF this year involve seekers of the truth, who want to get to the bottom of a story that can’t be told via a Facebook post or 140-character tweet.
By: Peter Howell Movie Critic, Published on Thu Sep 10 2015
My ink-stained heart is gladdened that one of the early talking points at TIFF 2015 is Spotlight, a film about journalists unmasking Roman Catholic Church corruption.
Tom McCarthy’s engrossing procedural on the Boston Globe’s 2002 pedophile priest exposé was the film I heard mentioned most often at a pre-TIFF party Wednesday night, the “Critical Drinking” bash hosted by the Toronto Film Critics Association and sponsored by the Star.
You’d expect journalists to be captivated by a film like Spotlight, but there were also many non-journos at the event who expressed great interest in seeing it. The cast includes Michael Keaton, Liev Schreiber, Rachel McAdams, Mark Ruffalo and John Slattery, all in top form as they depict the real reporters and editors who doggedly unearthed a Boston Archdiocese coverup, one with global implications, of the widespread sexual abuse of minors by supposedly holy men.
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