ABOMINABLE
Watchable. A pretty standard animation for older children. The plot where a kid helps a yeti get back home is typical. But the tale is warm, people characters nice and the yeti cuddlingly fluffy. Long end credits end in a picture of the family admiring the Leshan Buddha and the periscope snake popping up.
HUSTLERS
Watchable. It truly is a female response to "The Wolf of Wall Street": hustling, strippers, loads of money, drugs, first person storytelling, getting caught. But the novelty factor is gone. It is all engaging of course but not shocking or amazing, in spite of outstanding acting. What's curious is how varied the soundtrack is: Chopin, 50 Cent, Lorde, Flo Rida, Rihanna, Janet Jackson and a number of others.
OBYWATEL JONES (MR. JONES)
Recommended. About truth sacrificed for international politics. Gripping from early minutes till the very end, even if you know part of the story. American in style and structure. The Polish title, meaning "Citizen Jones" evokes "Citizen Kane", yet wrongly. Mr. Jones is the honest one dealing with press magnates one of who, like Kane, manipulates the public opinion. "The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe mentioned to Mr. Jones by a British engineer tells about a party of the rich in a palace outside of which a disease is killing the poor. Ultimately the death reaches the palace. Another reference in the plot is "Animal Farm" by George Orwell, written in 1945 - so now you know why the book talks about Mr Jones's farm. Some quotes are so harsh they have made me want to read it, never thought the story might be based on Holodomor in Ukraine, especially Kharkov, visited by Gareth Jones.
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