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A back of the envelope review of "Spotlight", a film about the Boston Globe investigative reporting on the Catholic priest sex abuse scandal. It is a well-constructed narrative with good performances but I kept thinking the son of "All the President's Men" since it is almost a paint-by-numbers copy of the original. With Ben Bradlee Jr. (played by John Slattery of "Mad Men") in a pivotal role just as his father was in the Watergate film, you can hardly avoid the similarities. The problem is that none of the characters have any intrinsic interest. They only function as sleuths. Instead of "Deep Throat", they rely on a Catholic priest who broke ranks and became a psychotherapist dealing in sex abuse cases. It was very earnest and very timely. What it lacked was human drama, probably a function of the sex abuse victims playing only a secondary role in the film.
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