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Free State of Jones
Directed by
Gary Ross
R
2016
2h 19m
Drama
,
History
,
and more
6.9
48%
64%
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A disillusioned Confederate Army deserter returns to Mississippi and leads a militia of fellow deserters and women in an uprising against the corrupt local Confederate government.
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Cast of Free State of Jones
Matthew McConaughey
Newton Knight
Gugu Mbatha-Raw
Rachel
Mahershala Ali
Moses Washington
Keri Russell
Serena Knight
Jacob Lofland
Daniel
Sean Bridgers
Sumrall
Brad Carter
Lieutenant Barbour
Jane McNeill
Miss Ellie
Gary Grubbs
Prosecuting Attorney
Christopher Berry
Jasper
Joe Chrest
Amos Deason
David Jensen
Quitman
Kurt Krause
Injured Soldier
Carlton Caudle
Confederate Color Guard
Martin Bats Bradford
Freedman 1
Matt Lintz
Matthew Yates
Kerry Cahill
Mary
Jessica Collins
Annie
Juan Gaspard
Confederate Soldier
Liza J. Bennett
Junie Lee
David Maldonado
Polling Station Clerk
Serenity Neil
Schoolgirl
Lawrence Turner
Chester
Lara Grice
Mrs. Deason
Wayne Pére
Col. Robert Lowry
Jim Klock
Farmer 1
Emily Bossak
Town Folk
P.J. Marshall
Sergeant
Ritchie Montgomery
Third Man
Mattie Liptak
Stillman Coleman
Jill Jane Clements
Aunt Sally
Thomas Francis Murphy
Col. McLemore
Johnny McPhail
Old Man
Bill Tangradi
Lt. Barbour
William Mark McCullough
First Man
Sam Malone
Edward James - Cotton Field Worker
Kylen Davis
Boy at Alice Hotel
Will Beinbrink
Farmer 2
Troy Hogan
George
Cy Parks
Confederate Soldier
Dane Rhodes
Ward
Lucy Faust
Second Woman / Yeoman Farmer
Stella Allen
Yeoman Girl
Cade Mansfield Cooksey
Older Coleman Brother
Tahj Vaughans
Maroon (uncredited)
Brian Lee Franklin
Davis Knight
Free State of Jones Ratings & Reviews
Andscape
Soraya Nadia McDonald
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.
Reel Talk Online
Candice Frederick
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.
National Newspaper Publishers Association
Dwight Brown
A surprisingly enlightening film.
The Atlantic
Vann R. Newkirk
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.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
The director and screenwriter Gary Ross illuminates immense historical spans with the true story of one man's revolt during the Civil War.
Tribune News Service
Katie Walsh
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.
DVDTalk.com
Jason Bailey
'Free State of Jones' is, on a surface level, perfectly acceptable: handsomely mounted, reasonably well-executed, sensitively acted. But at the service of what?
RogerEbert.com
Godfrey Cheshire
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.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
It's a powerful story but, as written and directed by Gary Ross, it has a by-the-books straightforwardness that sacrifices nuance for homiletics.
Detroit News
Adam Graham
Call it a civil bore.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Tirdad Derakhshani
Mixing elements from documentaries, biopics, war flicks, and Hallmark romances, Ross' film is a living history tour, but with gory special effects and a smoldering smattering of sex appeal.
Movie Mom
Nell Minow
Evocatively conveys the hardscrabble lives, the literal and spiritual grit, the desperation and conviction it inspires.
Vanity Fair
Richard Lawson
I don't feel qualified, as a non-historian, to weigh Free State of Jones's merits in terms of accuracy or fairness. But as a moviegoer, the film teases a rich and varied meal -- only to ultimately give us the same old meat and potatoes.
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, then grab a seat. Even McConaughey is sucked dry of his usual acting panache.
Associated Press
Lindsey Bahr
The Civil War and reconstruction were messy, and Free State of Jones wants to tackle it all. In the end, it's too much for any one film to handle compellingly with such specificity.
The Playlist
Kimber Myers
The movie's visceral battle scenes feature some of the bloodiest cinematic carnage since "Saving Private Ryan."
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
This screenplay is so arid in its didacticism, so pallid in its would-be passion, that it defeats [McConaughey's] efforts and our involvement, however much we may want to cut the film some slack for being about things of consequence.
Newsday
Rafer Guzman
Strong work from McConaughey as a charismatic leader, but the film's meandering historical scope will test your patience.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
A riveting visual history lesson, whose occasional didacticism is integral to its power.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
If McConaughey's performance is a little too jut-jawed and noble, the script has plenty of force.
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