Reviewers Give Spotlight Top Marks for Newsroom Authenticity

Raves from Josh Dickey, Lou Lumenick and many more.

The history of the Toronto International Film Festival as a Best Picture Oscar contender launching pad is well-documented. This year’s fall-to-February cycle is now fully underway, with the Tom McCarthy drama about the Boston Globe’s uncovering of Catholic Church abuses in the early lead.

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Spotlight is being favorably compared to 1976’s All the President’s Men, which lost out to Rocky in the Best Picture category but managed to claim four other statuettes. A fun strand has been to read the aspect of professional veracity that resonated most for individual journalists reviewers.

For Mashable entertainment editor Josh Dickey, it’s the thrill of the chase:

Veteran journalists know it well: That jolt of adrenaline right at the moment when you’ve got a hot story locked down, something important you’ve been working on for a good long while and no one else has — and all that’s left to do is write and publish.

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