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Free State Of Jones
According to the corruption and the abuse the state held against its people who exploit them in wars, a young courageous army soldier, Newton Knight, who after surviving from the violent civil war, returns to his home land of Mississippi, where he finds his family suffers from the hard livings, the thing that leads him to rebel against the confederate government.
September1973, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
30 July 1996, Arkansas, USA
18 July 1971, Jacksonville, Texas, USA
23 March 1976, Fountain Valley, California, USA
December 31, 2016
It's a plodding and dry story that feels like something only a History Channel-addicted dad could love. And it's surprising how bad it is given the players.
December 17, 2016
Absolutely nothing but a history lesson, presented in what feel like deliberately uncinematic terms.
February 08, 2017
Free State of Jones is a worthy experience, both instructive and provocative -- a lot of what goes on here is starting to look too familiar for comfort.
December 26, 2016
A must for Civil War buffs, Free State of Jones is a ripping fictionalised drama about true events long hidden from history's spotlight.
June 24, 2016
Ross bit off more than he can chew... the story lolls and wallows in wartime violence and the rebellion, then rushes through the horrors and trauma of Reconstruction.
January 01, 2017
McConaughey plays Newton Knight in one key, the key of righteous indignation, just what the story calls for.
July 11, 2016
A better film would have muddled the clean white-savior narrative with an actual exploration of what the racial politics of a mixed-race insurgency in the South might have been like.
June 24, 2016
As inherently astonishing and powerful as this little-known episode is, it has not been well-served by Ross' lumpy, ill-conceived script, which ends up wasting Matthew McConaughey's terrific lead performance and other strong acting contributions.
March 21, 2017
While all the performances are solid, there's too much of a distance from the setting of the story to truly create an immersive experience between the audience and the film.
June 27, 2016
The director and screenwriter Gary Ross illuminates immense historical spans with the true story of one man's revolt during the Civil War.
June 29, 2016
It certainly looks and sounds right, and probably smells right too -- these gunky Mississippi battles and unwashed soldiers feel authentic. The problem, as with McConaughey's performance, is that you always do feel it.
