If you loved Mudbound, try The Best Years of Our Lives
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Theyboth carry the bittersweet mood tag, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Mudbound, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What The Best Years of Our Lives is
War’s end meant three veterans were going home, but none of them quite knew what they’d left there. A banker, a soda jerk, and a sergeant walk into a post-war town where small-town life has shrunk their ambitions and their selves. The hoped-for homecoming turns out to be just the latest installment in the sequel nobody asked for.

