Movie Review: Ode to the fourth estate

Films about journalists are tricky. Reading documents, talking to people and fighting with editors, these are not exactly the easiest things from which to make exciting cinema. The gold standard is still Alan J Pakula's All the President's Men, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year.Tom McCarthy's Spotlight, an examination of the investigation into sexual abuse by priests in Boston in 2001, isn't as inventive or as nail-biting as Pakula's movie but it's elegantly told and held togethe...