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- 2017
- R
- 2 h 14 m
- 2017
- R
- 2 h 14 m
Summary Set in the post-WWII South, Mudbound follows the McAllan family, newly transplanted from the quiet civility of Memphis and unprepared for the harsh demands of farming. Despite the grandiose dreams of Henry (Jason Clarke), his wife Laura (Carey Mulligan) struggles to keep the faith in her husband's losing venture. Meanwhile, Hap and Flore...
Directed By: Dee Rees
Written By: Virgil Williams, Hillary Jordan
- 2017
- R
- 2 h 14 m
- 2017
- R
- 2 h 14 m
Mudbound
6.8
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Summary Set in the post-WWII South, Mudbound follows the McAllan family, newly transplanted from the quiet civility of Memphis and unprepared for the harsh demands of farming. Despite the grandiose dreams of Henry (Jason Clarke), his wife Laura (Carey Mulligan) struggles to keep the faith in her husband's losing venture. Meanwhile, Hap and Flore...
Directed By: Dee Rees
Written By: Virgil Williams, Hillary Jordan
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 44 Critic Reviews
85
93% Positive
41 Reviews
41 Reviews
7% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 44 Critic Reviews
85
93% Positive
41 Reviews
41 Reviews
7% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Mitchell — who was so marvelous as Eazy-E in the 2015 "Straight Outta Compton" — is superb here, as a young man struggling with what it means to be at home within his own heart, and within his country. Mudbound — tough and bittersweet and, in places, painfully brutal — is all about what it really means to be an American.
A hundred well-placed plot breadcrumbs lead us to our perfect ending, but apart from scriptwriting craft Rees gets in some bravura scenes of high tension.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 187 User Ratings
6.8
73% Positive
136 Ratings
136 Ratings
11% Mixed
21 Ratings
21 Ratings
16% Negative
30 Ratings
30 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 187 User Ratings
6.8
73% Positive
136 Ratings
136 Ratings
11% Mixed
21 Ratings
21 Ratings
16% Negative
30 Ratings
30 Ratings
Beautiful film with an incredible amount of depth and clear forethought messaging and thematic irony. Touching on the intersection of religion, morality, alternative slavery in the jim crow era, American identity, and family relations. It really hits on nearly every point of significance, and it makes you feel. It has one of the saddest moments I've experienced in a film, and yet also shows the resilience of the human spirit, and the humanity of people who endured the struggles of the era, and has moments of body-chilling inspiration and hopefulness.
Mudbound lays bare an ugly truth about the south during world war 2, and makes us question to what extent it is still going on. 80 years after the abolition of slavery and there was naked, disgusting terrorists bullying blacks. What is going on now, 80 years after the end of ww2? While the movie does an expose on all the above and more, it is not the message of the film. The final message of hope, love, and overcoming. A rose can grow from concrete.
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As striking as Mudbound's combat scenes are, they largely exist as setup for the postwar-set second half of the film, which scrutinizes the way that the atrocities witnessed in Europe laid bare the unsustainable hypocrisy in America's own bigoted divisions.
Mudbound is absorbing: the language, performance and direction all have real sinew.
Mudbound is beautifully shot, well-acted, and surprisingly sweeping for a movie with a relatively small budget of $10 million; if it’s guilty of anything, it’s perhaps trying to do too much at once, which is understandable given its novelistic scope.
Its powerful moments are too often swamped by melodrama that undercuts the director’s skills as a storyteller.
I'm not sure what the producers sought to achieve with a movie like this. It is too moody and sorrowful to be entertaining. It is a racially based story that is too often told (in one form or another), to be profound. And the series of events, leading up to the climax, are too unrealistic to be taken seriously. I wanted to like this movie. I truly did. I want to see Dee Rees be the first black woman to get nominated for Best Director. I want to see "Mudbound" get nominated for Best Picture. But it is going to be a tough call. I thought most of the performances were good, especially Rob Morgan as Hap Jackson and Carey Mulligan as Laura McAllan. However, Dee Rees' insistence on having the actors speak in back-woods, Mississippi, dialect sometimes made it difficult to understand what the actors were saying. Caption is a must! If I am honest with myself, I will have to admit that I didn't really like "Mudbound." Yet, I still recommend it (barely). Because I still think that it has enough redeeming qualities to be worthy of your 2 hours. Give it a chance and decide for yourself.
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Eine Geschichte die interessante Ansätze hat, diese jedoch erst sehr spät in der Story relevant werden. Die Zeit bis dahin (ungefähr die ersten 90 Minuten) wird einfach nur erzählt, wie die Menschen leben und was sie tun. Es gibt in diesem Abschnitt keine Höhepunkte und man kann in keinen Moment richtig mit einem der Charaktere mitfühlen, da die Story einfach nur monoton hintereinander erzählt wird. Die letzte halbe Stunde ist dann wesentlich besser und nutz das Potenzial des vorangegangenen Aufbau der Geschichte gut aus.
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This would be a useful movie if you enjoy being horrified and deeply depressed upon viewing a movie. I know there are critics who keep saying "we need to remind people of the darker parts of our history..." Okay but seriously how many decades into the 21st century do we need to keep throwing ugly racism onto theater screens? I would argue that continuing to do so is not helpful to race relations.
If I had to say one redeeming thing about it, i'll admit that the performances by Carey Mulligan and Mary J. Blige were both quite good, given the depressing screenplay they were handed.
Unfortunately it was such a downer I would not recommend to to any family or friends.
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Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 4 Nominations
Golden Globes, USA
• 2 Nominations
Black Reel Awards
• 3 Wins & 9 Nominations
