Review: Spotlight (2015)

Well, since nobody would shut up about this movie in regards to it's awards potential, I finally got around to watching the DVDScreener I downloaded for Spotlight.

And I was greeted by what is surely one of the most disappointing cinematic experiences of 2015 for me.

Tom McCarthy spins a stale, by the numbers homage to the world of journalism that feels at times almost like a propaganda piece then an actual film, with borderline cartoonishly evil villains, and heroes that are always perfectly on the side of Good™ and fight against the daunting forces of The System™ in order to expose some grand conspiracy.