Movie Review: Spotlight

On a purely technical level, Spotlight is many things: well directed, perfectly cast, impeccably acted, subtly and sublimely set, costumed, and designed, and is, perhaps, the best edited film I have seen this year. On a purely narrative level, Spotlight is tense, exciting, disturbing, and thought provoking. It is easily one of the five best pictures of the year so far (in the unofficial rankings that I keep in my head I currently have it at number three).