{"id":10776,"date":"2016-01-23T19:00:08","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T01:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=10776"},"modified":"2016-01-22T12:29:24","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T18:29:24","slug":"spotlight-2015-tom-mccarthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/10776","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight (2015, Tom McCarthy)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The very definition of a great ensemble cast, each character given similar tasks throughout the investigation but with different personal connections to the church and the case. Hulk<\/a> Ruffalo and Michael “Birdman<\/a>” Keaton are joined by Rachel “Passion<\/a><\/em>” McAdams, John “Iron Man’s dad<\/a>” Slattery and a gentle mustache named Brian James under new boss Liev “brother of Wolverine” Schreiber as reporters investigating a pattern of sexual abuse in the catholic church.<\/p>\n

D. Ehrlich: “earns comparisons to Zodiac<\/a><\/em> and All the President’s Men<\/em>, but is also more modest and anonymous than either… less sticky. still, builds an immense momentum with its earnestness.”<\/p>\n

M. D’Angelo: Thoroughly enjoyable, but the only aspect of it that wowed me was Liev Schreiber’s deliberately off-putting performance; I imagine McCarthy repeatedly telling him “Let’s try that again, but give me more absolutely nothing this time.”<\/p>\n

M. Harris:<\/p>\n

I know some people think that Tom McCarthy’s direction is utilitarian; I couldn’t disagree more. His steady medium shots and groupings of men (mostly men) in conversation in offices, behind overcrammed desks, in restaurants, clubs, doorframes, and well-appointed sanctuaries are not the product of lack of visual imagination but of serious thought about how best to tell a story of journalistic process and the uneasy co-functioning of big urban institutions (church, paper, courthouse). The empty weekend office in the film’s final sequence, with Liev Schreiber’s Marty Baron at work in the distant background, has stayed with me as much as any shot from any movie this year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The very definition of a great ensemble cast, each character given similar tasks throughout the investigation but with different personal connections to the church and the case. Hulk Ruffalo and Michael “Birdman” Keaton are joined by Rachel “Passion” McAdams, John “Iron Man’s dad” Slattery and a gentle mustache named Brian James under new boss Liev […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,1904,1819,63,1447,2042],"class_list":["post-10776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-michael-keaton","tag-rachel-mcadams","tag-religion","tag-reporter","tag-tom-mccarthy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10838,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10776\/revisions\/10838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}