A heavy, cathartic viewing experience for any fan of nuanced film.

| Jul 15, 2024

But this is a layered family drama with a captivating energy of unease that unfolds with skill in its stunning Western setting.

| Feb 8, 2024

This response to Hud may be the only time the general audience has understood film makers better than they understood themselves.

| Oct 17, 2023

It’s a beautifully constructed western that proved that the genre could evolve beyond gunfights and female characters who were barely able to speak.

| Feb 2, 2023

We have not before encountered a man so immured from humanity as the Hud created by Paul Newman, so completely uncaring, so alien -- and yet (this is the singular achievement of this film) so very much among us, of our time and of our society.

| Aug 15, 2022

...an erratic endeavor that succeeds most keenly as a showcase for its uniformly superb performances...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 22, 2021

The story isn't at all unusual and the setting isn't unusual either -- what makes it worthwhile entertainment is the sterling quality of the acting, superb music (when there is music) and the believable characters.

| Jan 13, 2021

Honesty in the observation of human character shines throughout this contemporary western in which Paul Newman plays a hustler without any visible pangs of conscience.

| Oct 14, 2019

The uncompromising realism is mostly in the veteran James Wong Howe's photography... The rest is pretty much the old salad, with sincere dressing.

| Aug 12, 2019

Patricia Neal delivers a subtle and sensual Oscar-winning performance.

| Original Score: 81/100 | Jul 17, 2014

An interview with Patricia Neal, RIP.

| Aug 9, 2010

...a Western Gothic, where everyone is headed for trouble.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 6, 2008

The four principal actors -- Newman, Neal, Douglas, and de Wilde -- are so good that they might well form the nucleus of a cinematic repertory company.

| Oct 1, 2008

A blistering adult western which broke ground in its depiction of an unglamorous West and in the decidedly anti-heroic nature of its lead.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 7, 2008

Where it falls short of the mark is in its failure to filter its meaning and theme lucidly through its characters and story.

| Jan 7, 2008

These questions are richer than they might have been in Hud because Newman...creates Hud as a sum of conscious choices, not an animal or an icon.

| Original Score: A- | Oct 15, 2006

Paul Newman established himself as a superstar in this uncompromising antihero role.

| Original Score: A- | Oct 4, 2006

One of Ritt's best films.

| Jun 24, 2006

Violating the the Producion Code, Martin Ritt's best film, which features Paul Newman in top form, includes forbidden words such as bastard and SOB, heard for the first time in American movie.

| Original Score: A | Dec 30, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 21, 2005