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				Really Great | Really Great | Really Great | Risqué | Glib | 
| AVERAGE | Great | Great | Very Good | Risqué | Glib | 
		
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				Really Great
			
			4.5
		
		 Joe Morgenstern declared Mud an instant classic in the Wall Street Journal. Not sure why, but hell yes. You almos…  | 
	
		
			
				Really Great
			
			4.5
		
		 Matthew McConaughey's romantic fugitive can now be counted as one of his greatest roles. McConaughey's Southern-fried …  | 
	
		
			
				Really Great
			
			4.5
		
		 Jeff Nichols wrote and directed two films before Mud, though neither made a splash. That's all over now, as he's cle…  | 
	
		
			
				Sordid
			
			2.7
		
		 Southern sordidness. Not quite into Elmore Leonard territory, but close.  | 
	
		
			
				Glib
			
			1.8
		
		 Jeff Nichols makes sure to show us a 2011 calendar, though his movie feels like a decade or more earlier given the old …  | 
		
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				Great
			
			4.0
		
		 Mud has the feel of Tom Sawyer-like coming-of-age adventure mashed up with an adult drama and even a bit of a phycholog…  | 
	
		
			
				Great
			
			4.0
		
		 Matthew McConaughey is great as the ever so slightly unstable Mud. Isn't he like that in real life? Never mind – he de…  | 
	
		
			
				Great
			
			4.0
		
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				Risqué
			
			1.9
		
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				Glib
			
			1.8
		
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				Good
			
			3.0
		
		 MUD is worth the date with your wife but like all the movies made with the intent to be a gripping attempt at winning s…  | 
	
		
			
				Good
			
			3.0
		
		 When you read the cast list you know it won't be a dud, but in the era Jennifer Lawrence and Phillip Seymour Hoffman ma…  | 
	
		
			
				OK
			
			2.5
		
		 The film is not a dud, but for crying out loud etiher this cast could have done better or the script should have been g…  | 
	
		
			
				Risqué
			
			1.8
		
		 For once, it would have been nice to masculinify a good guy, maybe the crazy scuba-diving uncle.  | 
	
		
			
				Natural
			
			1.0
		
		 somewhere between natural and glib  | 
		
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      Aug 24, 2013  6:38PM
      
      
    Wick
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     Regarding BrianSez’s Review  | 
 
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      May  9, 2013  8:47PM
      
      
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     Regarding Tripod’s Review  | 
 
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