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

The Film is Astonishing, Heartbreaking, Well Acted, and Mounted with Attention to Detail. Some Scenes are Visceral and Very Violent, others are Didactic and ...

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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.

Free State of Jones | Rotten Tomatoes

Because Free State of Jones concentrates so singularly on making [Matthew] McConaughey the hero of the film, it ends up being a series of missed opportunities.

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

Gary Ross' “Free State of Jones” is based on one of the most fascinating true stories of the Civil War. It tells of a rebellion against the Confederacy.

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

With all this, Ross gives us bold, flash-forward scenes that create a new and unexpected historical perspective. It's a movie that with enormous ...

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

The 139-minute war drama took me back to high school on the days when my U.S. History teacher would play a historical movie, like 1986's Glory, ...

Free State of Jones user reviews - Metacritic

such a great movie. Very moving and gives a realistic view of what was going in the South during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Incredible true story which ...

Free State of Jones - Movie Reviews - Rotten Tomatoes

The more unforgivable flaws center on narrative choices and misplaced emotion. ... ...a well-made film that's both gripping and informative. ... No matter what's ...

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

And while Mr. Ross's story makes Newton unambiguously heroic, this is not yet another film about a white savior sacrificing himself on behalf of ...

Free State of Jones Movie Review | Common Sense Media

It's an intense, violent drama about a Civil War deserter who ended up leading one of the biggest wartime rebellions in US history.

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

Unfortunately, the Free State of Jones feels this too and chokes, missing the chance to be something more than just a historical biopic. While ...

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

In the movie, Newt Knight nudges these deserters to reconsider their racial assumptions, but what really forces the point is their comradeship ...

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 Review: A Flawed, But Powerful Experience

The film takes a laser focus to these issues. What it lacks in eloquent delivery, it makes up for in brutal honesty. Scenes of lynchings, ...

Film Review: 'Free State of Jones' - Variety

(The divide in opinion, no surprise, tends to fall along North/South lines.) But in “Free State of Jones,” a Civil War drama written and ...

Review: Free State of Jones, White Savior or Nah? - The Root

Free State of Jones is a good, but not great, film. It does an excellent job of laying out an amazing true story and offers some excellent acting and a few ...

Right and Wrong in “The Free State of Jones": Making Sense of the ...

No one quite knows what to make of “The Free State of Jones,” the latest big-budget feature film about the history of the Civil War.

Review: Class war and the Confederacy in "Free State of Jones"

This film does for Southern white small farmers what the 1989 film Glory did for enslaved and free blacks – it provides a textured portrait of ...

The Free State of Jones review – a southern Schindler's List

What makes his story (or at least the version that makes it into this film) interesting is how his ultimate legacy emerged with no master plan.

Free State of Jones (2016) - IMDb

As civil war divides the nation, a poor farmer from Mississippi leads a group of ... A disillusioned Confederate army deserter returns to Mississippi and leads a ...