Mudbound

chanandre

[Tears still raining down]Here's to Ronsel finding happiness and managing to rejoin Resl + lil' Franz in Germany. Here's to racist pigs choking to death and rapists being slaughtered sans pity. Here's to feminism & equal opportunity despite 'ethnic' background or gender. Here's to Mary J. Blige's Oscar. Here's me spitting in the face of the voters for not nominating Dee Rees for Best Picture and Best D I R E C T O R▽

Michael H. CLAES

Except for C. MULLIGAN, the acting qualities were on the black cast rather on the white one. Jonathan BANKS (as unbearable as usual) plays an old pain on the ass, agressive with the black farmers working for the family & even with his 2 sons. À l'exception de C. MULLIGAN, les qualités d'acteur étaient pr le casting noir plutôt que le blanc. BANKS (le vieux flic de Breaking Bad) est aussi insupportable que d'habitude.

msmichel

The Toronto festival programmer noted that the film reveals the crack in the foundation of America. A crack? How about a bottomless pit of racism and hatred that time has done nothing to fill and current political climes nurture. The film itself is a somewhat by the numbers adaptation of the novel featuring some interesting character performances but nary enough depth in scripting to overcome its weaknesses.

Duncan Gray

As Norma Desmond said, "I *am* big! It's the pictures that got small." Mudbound is a Big Picture shrunk down for Netflix, but even setting that aside, it wastes what it does well—a multitude of perspectives—by sinking into melodrama that feels like our era's version of an earlier era's version of an earlier era. Not without some impact, but 40% of it could have sprung from the collective unconscious of Oscar season.

Jason

Though "important" movies engineered to win awards and pamper self-congratulatory, middlebrow liberal audiences are probably the kind of movie I am most congenitally predisposed to balk at, I am often interested to see what they will do (almost entirely from a sociological standpoint). MUDBOUND is actually fascinating despite leading us inexorably into overblown apotheosis. Some imagination, very strong cast.

Tiago Gonçalves

Rees offers an impartial view on intemporal issues like racial inequality, misogyny and family values, but there's something here that screams TV film to me...

ig_____or

Dee Rees is a treasure. This portrait of desolated souls and places in rural USA during and after WWII was beautiful. Jonathan Banks' KKK heinous patriarch was a scene-stealer, Mulligan expresses sadness through her eyes like no other actress and Garrett Hedlund was a doll. Oh, and preach it MJ Blige!

Carlos Filipe Freitas

This is another triumph by Dee Rees, an important, intelligent voice in the contemporary cinema, who knows exactly which message she wants to convey and what she needs from her cast and crew to make a film look and feel authentic.