Review of Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (2017) by David G — 24 Jan 2018

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This review of Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (2017) was written by David G on 24 Jan 2018.

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail has generally received positive reviews.

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By Mark Feeney (434) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 13 Jun 2017

Some of the best scenes show the family gathering after court sessions to discuss strategy, support each other, and vent…

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By Cynthia O (32) on 15 Nov 2017

Great film following the lives of the family whose bank was being unfairly targeted amidst the 2008 bubble burst…

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By Nathanael Hood (305) for Unseen Films (17) on 27 Dec 2018

How many other films, documentary or otherwise, has ever made the finer points of federal financial regulation so interesting…

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By Carlos M (2,069) on 05 Dec 2018

A really good example of how to make a cohesive documentary that touches on so many aspects of a legal case and yet never loses its focus or…

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By David F (1,889) on 11 Sep 2017

Cyrus Vance, Jr. owes these people far more than the 10 Million dollars he forced them to spend defending themselves…

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By Glenn Dunks (375) for Film Experience (395) on 19 Jul 2017

The modesty of its subjects, both corporate and human, clearly rubbed off on James who has crafted a standardly assembled yet no less enthralling…

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By Pat Padua (495) for Washington Post (9,851) on 21 Jun 2017

Much of the film’s appeal is from the quiet determination of the patriarch Sung, unflappable under the stress, and the family and community…

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By Wendy Ide (1,500) for Observer (UK) (2,398) on 08 Jul 2017

Disarmingly human moments - the Sung daughters, all high-powered lawyers, fret over their 80-year-old father's disappointing sandwich - pepper…

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By Robert Roten (1,865) for Laramie Movie Scope (1,865) on 16 Nov 2017

This documentary tells the David and Goliath story of a multi million dollar criminal prosecution of a small bank in New York's Chinatown,…

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By Matthew Anderson (173) for CineVue (2,163) on 28 Dec 2017

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail does build to a quietly engrossing climax and worthy championing of raging, albeit moderately, against the machine…

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