Recent films cast a glaring light on the Catholic Church’s pedophile
priests. They make the Vatican’s response seem too little, too late. Mark Ruffalo is good at looking bothered. On and off camera, the twitchy
American actor often wears an expression of distaste, like he just
caught a whiff of sour milk.
As a Boston Globe reporter investigating child molesters in Spotlight, Ruffalo has plenty to work with. Lurking at the back of a church, observing a group of boys rehearsing Silent Night, trying to fathom how a man of God could prey on innocent children, he screws his face into a rictus of disgust. Eugh.