Summer 2001. With the arrival of a new editor, Marty Baron, the employees of the Boston Globe fear restructuring. This is especially true for Spotlight, a team of four investigative journalists led by Walter Robinson, who choose the topics they usually investigate for several months. On the advice of Baron, Robinson and his three colleagues decide to focus on the case of a priest accused of pedophilia. They uncover a huge scandal, which proves that the Church has protected tens of priests and stifled hundreds of sordid stories ...

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The voice of actor/director Tom McCarthy has thus far been discreet but notable: his beautiful The Station Agent (2003); his Oscar-nominated The Visitor (2007),; his Oscar nomination as co-writer of Pixar Up (2010); and the 2011 comedy Win Win. And now here comes Spotlight, which has earned him two Oscar nominations as best director and co-writer. It is undoubtedly a milestone. An exciting, powerful investigative film about real events that rocked Boston in 2002, its mechanism is perfectly oiled but still completely convincing, thanks both to a simple script that avoids the pitfalls of the genre (such as turning journalists into superheroes), and to the excellent actors - Mark Ruffalo and Rachel McAdams, both nominated for an Oscar, as well as Michael Keaton, Brian d'Arcy James, Liev Schreiber, John Slattery and Stanley Tucci. No special effects, no frills, and no false notes; Spotlight gets it right with a simplicity perfectly suited to its subject.