Mr. Jones
2019 · Movie · 119 min · ★ 6.7 · 77% critics
In the early 1930s, a determined journalist travels into Soviet-controlled Ukraine and witnesses a devastating famine that officials want hidden. As he tries to report what he’s seen, he faces intimidation, surveillance, and powerful voices eager to bury the truth for political convenience.
Also known as Mr Jones
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Details
- Years
- 2019
- Release date
- 2019-10-03
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 119 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 77/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.7/10 (475 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a bleak, fact-based drama about truth versus propaganda, with mounting danger and moral outrage; Not for you if you dislike grim famine imagery or deliberate pacing, like in Denial or Shattered Glass.
Pros: powerful true story; tense cat-and-mouse stakes; strong performances | Cons: slow in places; uneven emotional pull; some history left vague
Themes
- grave
- based on true story
- genocide
- 1930s
- holodomor
- ukraine
- informative
- ominous
Cast & crew
James Norton
as Gareth Jones
Vanessa Kirby
as Ada Brooks
Peter Sarsgaard
as Walter Duranty
Joseph Mawle
as George Orwell
Kenneth Cranham
as Lloyd George
Celyn Jones
as Matthew
Krzysztof Pieczyński
as Maxim Litvinov
Beata Pozniak
as Rhea Clyman
Fenella Woolgar
as Miss Stevenson
Michalina Olszańska
as Yulia
Directed by Agnieszka Holland