Generally interesting and with a decent production value, The Mule is worth a look.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 12, 2019

Excellent writing and direction successfully meld thriller elements to make for a surprisingly rich black comedy.

| Feb 28, 2019

Its a cheek-clenchingly tense waiting game that Sampson plays perfectly ...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 2, 2017

Those inhabiting the drama might be stereotypical stock characters, but they each have enough depth to prevent their actions from being forgettable.

| Original Score: B- | Feb 26, 2016

A face-achingly hilarious and literally gut-wrenching indie debut.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 24, 2016

This gritty, claustrophobic film will not be to everyone's taste -- and if I say that phrase also has a double meaning, you have a hint of just how gross Ray's week gets before it's over.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 11, 2014

Angus Sampson co-directs and stars in the most unglamorous vanity project of recent memory... A slickly-produced black comedy.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 1, 2014

What should not be overlooked is the consistent strength, cunning conviction and clever execution of the movie.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 26, 2014

An excremental but hardly execrable Australian comedy-drama that plays like the klutzy, sheets-soiling stepbrother of "Maria Full of Grace."

| Nov 24, 2014

The film is surprisingly tender, much less a rude comedy than a loving evocation of the Aussie character in the early 80s.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 23, 2014

Some of it is extremely disgusting and they seemed to revel in that aspect of it.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 21, 2014

Savvy, funny, and at times vicious.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 21, 2014

Filled with promise from the opening minutes, with each succeeding sixty seconds, "The Mule" deflates, emptying what little there was inside and lets it circle the bowl.

| Original Score: C- | Nov 21, 2014

To make a feature where evidence of diarrhea is a critical part of the plot? That's a real creative accomplishment.

| Original Score: B | Nov 21, 2014

Well-made and smarter than it first seems, The Mule deserves to find its audience at the home box office. But they won't want dinner afterwards.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 20, 2014

Fresh, original movies like The Mule come from the least likely places (if you've seen the film's trailer).

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 20, 2014

After a slowish start, The Mule kicks into gear. It's a fiendishly smart and entertaining comedy entirely predicated on the idea of somebody not wanting to go to the loo.

| Nov 19, 2014

Credit the filmmakers for making this unusual inaction movie as lively as it can possibly be, given a protagonist who's determined to do nothing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 19, 2014

It doesn't integrate the humour and violence as seamlessly as Angus Sampson's other recent work like 100 Bloody Acres.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 19, 2014

The Mule may make you throw up; in a good way.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 18, 2014