Michael Keaton stars as Walter Robbie Robinson, the Spotlight teams alpha.
Newsrooms have always been catnip to Hollywood, write EWs Chris Nashawaty, in hisA review.
Often this leads to movies that choke on their own selfrighteousness (last monthsTruth).
It would have been easy for McCarthy to paint the church as the films sole, monolithic villain.
But theres enough blame to go around to other institutions here, including the slow-to-act media.
After all,Spotlights newsroom may have its heroes, but theyre not saints.
McCarthy celebrates journalists and recognizes that what they do is important and necessary, but he doesnt idealize them.
This is simply a great story exceedingly well told, through characters whose fingers are perpetually stained with ink.
Its one of the smartest and most involving movies of the year.
Dana Stevens (Slate)
Spotlightthe movie, like Spotlight the news team, has no single star player.
Scott (New York Times)
Mr. McCarthy is a solid craftsman.
