Reviews for this film from our members:
- Marco Albanese @ Stanze di Cinema [Italian]
- Excerpt: Più riuscito e misterioso nella prima parte, nella seconda Nichols vuole dare una risposta a tutti personaggi, chiudendo il cerchio con sin troppa perfezione ed offrendo a tutti un nuovo inizio, come nella migliore tradizione del sogno americano.
- [New – 4/3/14] | Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Jason Bailey @ Flavorwire
- Excerpt: This is a moving, earnest picture, told with the vividness of a cherished memory.
- Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
- Excerpt: Up till just past the three-quarter mark, Mud is one heck of a nifty psychological fable.
- Joshua Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
- Bob Cashill @ Popdose.com
- Excerpt: Review of Jeff Nichols’ latest film.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: a deceptively slow-building film. Like its author’s views on women and men, it is full of both hard life lessons and the magical from the very beginning.
- Edwin Davies @ A Mighty Fine Blog
- Excerpt: Even though it is undeniably a modern film with a contemporary setting, there’s a timelessness to Mud that is rare and special. Strongly reminiscent of the works of Mark Twain and Charles Dickens – with McConaughey as a sort of chiseled Magwitch – it feels like the latest addition to a long and illustrious tradition of stories about young men going on an adventure, only to be rudely ushered into adulthood along the way.
- Carlos del Río @ El rincón de Carlos del Río [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Jeff Nichols se mete a contarnos una historia con mucho encanto de un chico en el sur de Estados Unidos. A mí aunque me gusta, me parece que el guión tiene problemas de ritmo y unos personajes femeninos muy malos.
- Clark Douglas @ DVD Verdict
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: Nichols’ observant and ultimately compassionate screenplay starts by taking sides, only to grow in understanding along with Ellis’ maturation.
- João Marcos Flores @ Cineviews
- Dustin Freeley @ Movies About Gladiators.com
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: Engaging, endearing adventure, tracing its heart-warming antecedents to Mark Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn”
- Oktay Ege Kozak @ Oregon Herald
- Kristin Dreyer Kramer @ NightsAndWeekends.com
- Peter Martin @ Twitch
- Excerpt: The new film from Jeff Nichols features Matthew Conaughey as a mysterious stranger who enters the lives of two teenage boys on the verge of adulthood. But it’s really about America.
- Ryan McNeil @ The Matinee
- Excerpt: The creator of TAKE SHELTER is back, and once again he’s out to ask us to examine what we believe…and who we believe in.
- Scott Nye @ CriterionCast
- Excerpt: Jeff Nichols can’t find in his direction the tone so apparently rich in his screenplay. On the one hand, it’s a great example that a simple “illustrated text” a film does not make, but more dishearteningly, we’re left with a film unable to satisfy its considerable potential.
- Frank Ochieng @ SFcrowsnest
- Excerpt: Impeccably whimsical, observational, moody and soul-searching, writer-director Jeff Nichols’s downhome drama ‘Mud’ slings its share of southern charm and tension as it presents a different kind of coming-of-age tale that radiates with absolute certainty.
- Jonathan Richards @ www.jonrichardsplace.com
- Excerpt: Jeff Nichols’s Mud is a coming-of-age story that owes a debt to a lot of other stories, from that Mark Twain classic to Dickens’s Great Expectations (in which a boy meets an escaped convict on a desolate moor, and does him a kindness.)
- Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: One of the best American films in recent memory
- Diego Salgado @ Miradas de Cine [Spanish]
- Tom Santilli @ Examiner.com
- Excerpt: With a name like Mud, it may be easy to miss. But miss Mud, and you’ll be missing one of the best films to come out of the first half of 2013.
- Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: Benefiting from a cast that includes Matthew McConaughey, Sam Shepherd, and Michael Shannon, “Mud” is an engaging coming-of-age tale whose gaping plot holes barely matter.
- Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
- Excerpt: At once ode to a vanishing way of life and homage to the Mississippi River masterworks of Mark Twain, this beaitifully realized picture is easily one of the year’s best thus far.
- Sam Turner @ Film Intel
- Excerpt: ‘Nichols’ collection of damaged, meandering characters, have the feel of a group of people who need stories not just to live life, but to exist’
- Andrew Wyatt @ Look / Listen (St. Louis Magazine)
- Excerpt: While Mud is Nichols’ most straightforward and conventional feature to date, there’s an undeniable pleasure in seeing a bravura filmmaker and an outstanding cast deliver a gripping coming-of-age tale that oozes Southern Gothic atmosphere from every pore.
