Review: Matthew McConaughey Rebels Against Rebels in ‘Free State of Jones’ - The New York Times
A. O. Scott
The film does not minimize the violence of slavery, including the sexual violence that was the daily experience of women like Rachel, but it also refrains from turning cruelty into spectacle.
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