'Free State of Jones' Review

A movie of two halves. Plenty of gritty storytelling in the first half, but then strangely pulls its punches in the second. What could have been a dramatic tale ...

Free State of Jones movie review (2016) - Roger Ebert

The film starts out with a searing reminder of the horrors of the only war fought on American soil. We're on a battlefield with straight lines ...

Free State of Jones (2016) - User reviews - IMDb

Free State Of Jones puts it quite succinctly and with absolute conviction. There's no ifs and buts that blur the issue of freedom. It doesn't try to distract us ...

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It's a historically accurate movie but not a very good one. Matthew McConaughey does a fantastic job as Newton Knight. I really enjoyed the ...

The Real Rebels: A Review of Free State of Jones with Reflections ...

The movie offers a fictionalized version of the revolt of poor Southerners against the Confederacy in Jones County, Mississippi. Newton Knight ...

Free State of Jones review – Matthew McConaughey rages through ...

This audacious, visceral, beautifully shot story of a real-life outlaw in Louisiana's swamps is one to watch out for in awards season.

'Free State of Jones' Review: An Ignorant Civil War Drama About ...

There are some moments in Free State of Jones dedicated to the black characters' lives, many of which mark the film's strongest moments.

Matthew McConaughey Rebels Against Rebels in 'Free State of Jones'

Directed by Gary Ross (“Seabiscuit”) with blunt authority and unusual respect for historical truth, “Free State of Jones” explores a neglected ...

Free State of Jones Movie Review | Common Sense Media

Why Age 16+? ... Some drinking during celebrations; a few characters smoke cigarettes. ... A few scenes hint at sex, but viewers don't see even a ...

Film Review | The Biggest Failure of Free State of Jones is its Lack ...

It is not a bad film, not at all, it is very entertaining and full of strong performances, especially a frizzy haired Mahershala Ali as the ...

Watching and Talking About “Free State of Jones”

Only Newt (Matthew McConaughey) and Moses Washington (Mahershala Ali; a fictional, composite character meant to represent the transition to ...

Free State of Jones (2016) - IMDb

Second amendment fans may love this film. It depicts what they dream of: oppressed citizenry taking up arms to defeat their own government. In addition to ...

Free State of Jones - movie review - Milliken's Bend

A Civil War Battle in History and Memory. The Civil War battle of Milliken's Bend, showing African-American soldiers holding their ground.

Review: Free State of Jones

Free State of Jones puts to bed this nonsense. War – as always – is nasty, brutal business. This movie doesn't shy away from the brutality or ...

NF - Free State Of Jones | Civil War Books, Stories, & Media

The first part of the movie is not bad, but the funeral fight and a few other scenes that follow look like something out of a comic book. All ...

Free State of Jones Review: A Flawed, But Powerful Experience

The racial themes, economic disparity, and violence are viewed over time. The message being, that while slavery was abolished, the mindset and ...

'Free State of Jones' Movie Review - Rolling Stone

Peter Travers ... If you think a thick, juicy slab of Civil War history can't be boiled down to 145 minutes of speechifying, stultifying cinema, ...

Free State of Jones user reviews - Metacritic

Beautiful and sad, exciting and elegiac in tone, this is the best movie ever made about the Civil War. It is a true story which closely follows historical ...

The Faux-Wokeness of Film Reviews: In Defense of The Free State ...

What's the best thing about Gary Ross's The Free State of Jones? It is clearly a film that will rile the “All Lives Matter” crowd.

The Historical Imagination and “Free State of Jones” | The New Yorker

The movie provides a collection of historical facts that are, in themselves, important to know, and it sketches, broadly and clearly, a form of ...