In the post–World War II South, two families are pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously fight the battle at home and the battle abroad.
“Mudbound offers a well-acted, finely detailed snapshot of American history whose scenes of rural class struggle resonate far beyond their period setting.”
There’s not a minute in Mudbound that doesn’t feel deeply felt and believable.
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J. R. Jones
RTChicago ReaderApr 16, 2020
The players are uniformly excellent.
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Anne Thompson
RTIndieWireMar 31, 2020
Rees embraced the book's multiple narrators, lacing the two families into a complex tapestry.
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Jane Schoenbrun
RTFilmmaker MagazineJul 10, 2026
Audiences are hungry to hear and understand a new, alternative narratives... Mudbound argues that we can hope to truly understand our past and our present.