Spotlight (2015)

Spotlight rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb8.1/10· 529K votes

Rotten Tomatoes97%

Metacritic93%

TMDb7.814/10· 9K votes

With 97% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 8.1/10 on IMDb and 93/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About Spotlight

The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.

Cast of Spotlight

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  Mark Ruffalo

  as Michael Rezendes

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  Michael Keaton

  as Walter 'Robby' Robinson

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  Rachel McAdams

  as Sacha Pfeiffer

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  Liev Schreiber

  as Marty Baron

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  John Slattery

  as Ben Bradlee, Jr.

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  Brian d'Arcy James

  as Matt Carroll

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  Stanley Tucci

  as Mitchell Garabedian

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  Elena Wohl

  as Barbara

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  Gene Amoroso

  as Steve Kurkjian

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  Doug Murray

  as Peter Canellos

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  Sharon McFarlane

  as Helen Donovan

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  Jamey Sheridan

  as Jim Sullivan

Spotlight facts

Budget

$20M

Box office

$98.7M

Our take on Spotlight

Tom McCarthy's 2015 Oscar winner reconstructs how the Boston Globe's investigative team exposed the Catholic Church's cover-up of child abuse. Understated and rigorous, it makes the patient grind of real journalism quietly gripping, trusting facts over heroics. If its procedural restraint and moral urgency gripped you, seek out journalism and investigation dramas that find suspense in the slow uncovering of truth.