If you’re looking for the best movie of the year so far, its name is “Mud.’ It’s a child-on-the-way-to-becoming-an-adult story that recalls such classics as “To Kill a Mockingbird’ and ...

If 'Beasts Of The Southern Wild' was 2012’s best indie, then 'Mud' is the best 2013 film I have seen so far. The movie almost works like a dream with its myriad plot points.

Mark Twain, for the record, doesn't have anything directly to do with "Mud." He didn't write it, he isn't the subject of it, and his name is never even spoken in it. His ghost, however, hovers ...

Movies 'Mud' movie review: Matthew McConaughey is exceptional in Jeff Nichols' gritty, authentic drama. Published: ; Apr. 26, 2013, 12:00 p.m.

All of which brings us to Mud.At Rotten Tomatoes 98% of the critics who reviewed it liked it, the great Joe Morgenstern at the Wall Street Journal referred to it as a classic, and then the New ...

The image of a boat resting in a tree is one of the more poetic images in Jeff Nichols’ Southern drama “Mud.”This is where two boys discover a drifter, and if the movie had been able to ...

In a film like “Mud,” made with an obvious awareness of the South’s literary traditions, there are attractions on every possible level of meaning — from the mundane to the mythic.

Mud: Cannes Review. Matthew McConaughey stars in director Jeff Nichols' film about two Mississippi boys who forge a bond with a sympathetic fugitive.

"Mud" is set in the present, but there's a timeless quality to its simple story and to its... New Haven Register Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo Skip to main content ...