Tom McCarthy's rigorous journalism procedural "Spotlight" came into its gala premiere screening at the Toronto International Film Festival as the fall's most talked-about movie. But then, who was doing the talking? Journalists covering the Venice and Telluride film festivals, a pushover audience for a movie that celebrates the power and honor of investigative reporting.
"It's almost a journalist's duty to love this movie, right?" asked Boston Globe reporter Sacha Pfeiffer, part of the paper's Pulitzer Prize-winning "Spotlight" team that investigated a pedophilia scandal within the Catholic Church. "I just wonder if moviegoers are going to love it as much.