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发帖数: 1998 | 1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abacus:_Small_Enough_to_Jail
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail is a 2016 American documentary film
by Steve James.[2] The film centers on the Abacus Federal Savings
Bank, a family-owned community bank situated in Manhattan's
Chinatown in New York City which, because it was deemed "small
enough to jail" rather than "too big to fail", became the only
financial institution to actually face criminal charges following
the subprime mortgage crisis.[3]
The film premiered at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival,
where it was first runner-up for the People's Choice Award in the
documentary category.[4] It aired on the PBS documentary series
Frontline in 2017[5] and is available for online streaming at no
charge.[6]
Critical response
Abacus received generally positive reviews from critics. On Rotten
Tomatoes the film has a rating of 91%, based on 41 reviews, with an
average rating of 7.5/10.[7] On Metacritic, the film has a score of
73 out of 100, based on 16 critics, indicating "generally favorable
reviews".[8]
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky of The A.V. Club gave the film a C+, considering
the film to be a "pleasant" yet "inessential" film, with its
"unusually literal" documentary style applied to a narrative
that could have been efficiently told in a magazine article.
Vishnevetsky stated that "[p]erhaps the problem is that he
isn’t one to extrapolate, interrogate, or pry subjects open;
his best films are chronicles of hopes, dreams, and hardships
made possible by the trust James works to elicit from his
subjects."[9]
Matt Zoller Seitz of RogerEbert.com, however, declared Abacus to
be "another classic" from Steve James,[10] giving the film four
out of four stars. He praised James' "knack for finding the
universal within the specific, and often a much larger and more
complex story nestled within a specific account of one event."
Seitz also pointed out that even though the film is engrossing
as a legal thriller, "it's even more notable as a portrait of
a community. James... has constructed a rich and revealing context
for this tale, and it's one that is rarely showcased in American
cinema.... a thriving community [Chinatown] that defines itself
in relation the mainstream of American culture and that is
aspirational but never entirely comfortable or accepted."[11] | s*****n
发帖数: 1998 | 2 作为美国次贷危机里面唯一一个被起诉的银行, 这家银行要是像老将那样舔好白人的眼
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: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abacus:_Small_Enough_to_Jail
: Abacus: Small Enough to Jail is a 2016 American documentary film
: by Steve James.[2] The film centers on the Abacus Federal Savings
: Bank, a family-owned community bank situated in Manhattan's
: Chinatown in New York City which, because it was deemed "small
: enough to jail" rather than "too big to fail", became the only
: financial institution to actually face criminal charges following
: the subprime mortgage crisis.[3]
: The film premiered at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival,
: where it was first runner-up for the People's Choice Award in the
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