Saturday 28 May 2016

Spotlight (2015 Tom McCarthy & co-scr)

Another Oscar winner for screenplay (co-written with Josh Singer), but did they give it because of the subject matter or because it was the best screenplay?

Many of the cast don't seem like themselves - Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, Michael Keaton, Liev Schreiber (who's great in a very knocked-back performance), Stanley Tucci - though John Slattery does. Didn't recognise Almost Famous' Billy Crudup at all.

We felt the end titles, with the places where more Catholic abuse and corruption had been unearthed, should have been held longer. We feel the Catholic Church should be disbanded. We do remember the Spanish Inquisition.

A very calm, almost anti-dramatic treatment.

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