National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies vs Spotlight

National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies has the higher audience score (9/10 against 7.8/10 for Spotlight). Spotlight is the shorter watch at 2h 9m compared with 2h 15m. Spotlight is the older of the two (2015 against 2023). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.

National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies posterNational Theatre Live: Best of Enemies2023 VS Spotlight posterSpotlight2015
National Theatre Live: Best of EnemiesSpotlight
Audience score★ 9.0/10★ 7.8/10
Year20232015
Length2h 15m2h 9m
GenresComedy, Drama, HistoryDrama, History
CountryUnited Kingdom–
DirectorJeremy HerrinTom McCarthy
Main castSam Otto, David Harewood, Zachary Quinto, Clare Foster, Syrus LoweNeal Huff, Liev Schreiber, John Slattery, Billy Crudup, Mark Ruffalo

Synopsis

National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies

In 1968 America, as two men fight to become the next president, all eyes are on the battle between two others: the cunningly conservative William F. Buckley Jr., and the unruly liberal Gore Vidal. During a new nightly television format, they debate the moral landscape of a shattered nation.

Spotlight

The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.

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