Spotlight

Spotlight is the 2015 biographical drama following the Boston Globe’s “Spotlight” investigative journalism unit. The story they are attempting to crack open involves systemic child sex trafficking in the Boston area by Roman Catholic priests.

In a glaring display of a disjunct storyline, Rachel McAdams’s character is in a coffee shop, documenting details of abuse by a sexual abuse survivor. In her notebook, she is seen feverishly writing down details that will be used to blow the story wide open. Unfortunately, this key piece of evidence doesn’t make it past this scene. McAdams must have a photographic memory, or writers simply dropped the ball on this one.