7 Ways to Resist This Week

This eagerly anticipated film explores issues of race and class through the experiences of two families, one black, one white, in 1940s Mississippi. Carey Mulligan and Jason Clarke play a couple who relocate with their children from Memphis to the Mississippi Delta and struggle to survive by farming, and their lives intertwine with those of a black sharecropping family, headed by Rob Morgan and Mary J. Blige. Dee Rees (Pariah, Bessie) directs from a script she wrote with Virgil Williams, based on Hillary Jordan's book. Mudbound is in theaters in select cities today as well as on Netflix.