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Free State of Jones
2016
· Movie
· 140 min
C
MEANRANK
66/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3028
- IMDb #2451
- Google retired #736
- Rotten Tomatoes #3375
- Metacritic #2814
- Letterboxd #2953
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3881
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3086
- Metacritic Critics #3089
- Metacritic Audience #2129
- Criticker #1683
- Kinopoisk #3425
- AlloCiné #1585
- Trakt #1812
Every rating
48–92
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 48, highest is Google on 92. Critics average 50, everyone else 69.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A disillusioned Confederate army deserter returns to Mississippi and leads a rebellion of fellow farmers and escaped slaves against the Confederacy. They establish a free state in the swamps, based on equality. The film follows their struggle during the war and the Reconstruction era that followed.
Details
- Director
- Gary Ross
- Writers
- Gary Ross, Leonard Hartman
- Released
- 24 June 2016
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 140 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $50.0M
- Box office
- $25.0M
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