He’s Kevin Costner in “Dances with Wolves” crossed with a saintly Marxist professor crossed with a white version of Malcolm X. For all the ravaged surface appeal of McConaughey’s performance, the character is a little too good to be true, but then, that’s just the sort of movie “Free State of Jones” is. It’s a tale of racial liberation and heroic bloodshed that is designed, at almost every turn, to lift us up to that special place where we can all feel moved by what good liberals we are.

At several points, Ross employs real Civil War photographs (with explanatory titles) to advance the story, and after the film uses one of these shots to tell us that in July, 1863, Confederate desertions were on the rise, we cut to Knight’s woodland guerrilla army — and it’s suddenly a force of 100 people, all united in their renegade passion. I’m not sure that the film ever quite recovers from this short-handed piece of exposition.

Allstar wrote:Debuts to 0% on RT.

Now Where Was I ? wrote:Lmao wtf is happening with McConaughey these days?

Sea of Trees, this and it's not like that Dark Tower film will be any good

Now Where Was I ? wrote:Lmao wtf is happening with McConaughey these days?

Sea of Trees, this and it's not like that Dark Tower film will be any good