Movie reviews: Free State of Jones, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Deepwater Horizon

Free State of Jones 4/5

Set during the American Civil War, Free State of Jones (12A) opens with Confederate soldier Newton Knight (Matthew McConaughey) deserting his post and returning home to Jones County, Mississippi.

Outraged by the way Confederate troops ‘tax’ the locals — taking their livestock and crops and leaving defenceless women and children to starve — Knight begins a campaign of resistance that draws fellow deserters and freed slaves.