
I was recently poking around Prime’s menu of available movies when I stumbled upon ‘Mr. Jones,’ about British journalist Gareth Jones’s groundbreaking reporting on the man-made Ukrainian famine under Stalin during the early ’30s – and his journalistic showdown at the time with NYT Moscow bureau chief Walter Duranty, a loathsome Stalinist apologist. … Though the 2019 film has its flaws, I liked it a lot, as did the NYT’s reviewer and many other critics. I now rank ‘Mr. Jones’ up there with my all-time favorite movies about journalism, after All the President’s Men, Spotlight, His Girl Friday and The Post, among others. … And, yes, I’m surprised I hadn’t heard of ‘Mr. Jones’ till this past weekend. Glad I found it.
