This study belongs to the literary study. This study analyzes sexual abuse in Catholic Church in Spotlight Movie (2015) Directed by Tom MC Carthy: A Reception Theory. There are two objectives of study, the first is to describe the dominant issue by the reviewers to Tom McCarthy’s Spotlight movie. The second is to describe the background of reviewer response to Spotlight movie. This study is qualitative study and using two data sources; they are primary and secondary data. The primary data source is the reviews of Spotlight movie (2015) by Tom MC Carthy from IMDb (Internet Movie Database). The secondary data of this study are taken from other sources such as literary book, previous studies, articles, journals, and also website related to a reception theory. The writer focuses on the cultural reader response theory that analyzes the data
