Spotlight is the investigative reporting team at The Boston Globe that knocked the Rosary beads right off the Catholic Church’s cover up of rampant priestly sexual abuse. Well, they made a movie about these journalists and it’s excellent.

The Spotlight group (Keaton, McAdams, Ruffalo and d’Arcy James) was cohesive and thorough in their investigation before everything was a click way. Each had their personal relation to the church and they were collectively motivated to expose these injustices. This makes it difficult to distinguish one performance as better than the other; a testament to the team concept and great writing. In fact, when Ruffalo individualizes his own emotions in a much previewed rant, the demeanor of the group is altered and thus we have the film’s only true glitch.

Two performances in the picture stood tall. Schreiber as new Globe editor Baron, exhibited monotone calm and leadership as the pressure to print mounted. And Tucci as Garabedian, the single attorney representing the victims, resembled an exhausted man with unwavering resolve to give his clients a voice.

This story about the story about the newspaper reporting of an extremely important story inks 4.55 napkins out of 5.