Mudbound (2017)

Now Available on Netflix
Directed By: Dee Rees
Starring: Carey Mulligan, Jason Mitchell, Garrett Hedlund, Jason Clarke, Mary J. Blige

These are the Netflix original movies so far: Beasts of No Nation, The Ridiculous 6, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny, Pee-wee’s Big Holiday, Special Correspondents, The Do-Over, The Fundamentals of Caring, Rebirth, Tallulah, XOXO, ARQ, The Siege of Jadotville, Mascots, I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House, 7 AƱos, True Memoirs of an International Assassin, Mercy, Spectral, Barry, Coin Heist, Clinical, Take the 10, iBoy, Imperial Dreams, Girlfriend’s Day, I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore, Burning Sands, Deidra & Laney Rob a Train, The Most Hated Woman in America, The Discovery, Win It All, Sandy Wexler, Sand Castle, Tramps, Small Crimes, Handsome, Blame!, War Machine, Shimmer Lake, You Get Me, Okja, To the Bone, The Incredible Jessica James, Naked, What Happened to Monday, Death Note, Little Evil, First They Killed My Father, Gerald’s Game, Our Souls at Night, The Meyerowitz Stories, The Babysitter, 1922, Wheelman, The Killer, A Christmas Prince, and now Mudbound. Some are better than others are (as some are Adam Sandler movies), but it does not seem like any would be a five star movie. Only with this latest movie does a Netflix movie seem like it is trying to be a classic.

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