Spotlight (2016)

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Depicting journalism on screen is a tricky task.  The truth is that it is rarely clandestine meetings with mysterious sources but is more often simple, long and boring fact-checking followed by bursts of excitement when a big story comes along.  It’s this that Spotlight aims to capture.  The tale of the Boston Globe’s Spotlight team’s investigation into the Catholic Church Abuse Scandal is lacking huge set pieces and dramatic gestures and instead features plain old journalism, but still manages to be gripping from start to finish.

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Southpaw

Boxing films are notoriously hard to pull off.  They can go from the sublime to the ridiculous very easily, as director’s try to capture the frantic nature of the sport.  The truth is that the best boxing films don’t focus on the sport itself, but the people involved in it.  Which is exactly what Southpaw tries to do.

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