This new biographical drama has echoes of Spotlight (2015), which followed an investigative team on the trail of widespread and institutionally condoned sexual abuse by Catholic priests in Boston, and won an Oscar for Best Motion Picture.
Like Spotlight, the facts need no adornment because the unfolding drama is so persuasive and the disclosures so overdue. The setting is The New York Times in 2016, where two journalists, Megan Twohey (Carey Mulligan) and Jodi Kantor (Zoe Kazan), start digging into rumours about the behaviour in Hollywood of film titan Harvey Weinstein.
