Tom McCarthy

The film's greatest pleasure is in the snappy dialogue Gilroy crafts for the capable duo of Roberts and Owen...

Hoffman’s actorly sensibility allows the film’s best moments, expressed in gestures and non-verbal signifiers...

McCarthy does a fine job of juggling the domestic mystery, situational comedy, and inevitable drama, and his terrific cast is well-suited to the deadpan ethical satire.

Smart and stinging, Spotlight excels not only in depicting the stonewalling around the scandal but also the double-talk conversations from within and without the Globe that don’t say—but don’t not say—'Don’t go there