Virag's Movie Reviews: Spotlight (2015)

Spotlight is absolutely an unabashed cartoony superhero flick for the over 17 cohort.  You had the selfless heroes, a team of avengers made up of Bruce Banner, Bruce Wayne, Howard Stark, and Victor Creed, fighting against the big bad monsters and winning.  The thing was a bit too humble-brag congratulatory and obviously award-baity at times and at others something most resembling a tee vee miniseries, but the movie was actually well-done for the most part and went by quickly.  (The director of this flick directed that train movie with Tyrion Lannister a while ago but also has unfortunate Paul Giamatti associations.)  If the good guys were a little flat, at least the bad guys were portrayed as true fucking slimeball assholes.  That's something considering the bad guys in the movie are real and really bad guys in real life.