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100
Newman is at his very best, and the cinematography is backing him up every step of the way. Must-see material.
80
The film is on the level, and 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. The point of the picture is as dry and nihilistic as a Panhandle dust storm.
75
Newman's performance is unquestionably the best thing about this brutal portrait of humanity.
70
Ugly, powerful drama. [28 May 1963]
70
Pretensions are kept nicely damped down by the performances (all four principals are great) and by Wong Howe's magnificent camerawork.
60
Hud is a near miss. Where it falls short of the mark is in its failure to filter its meaning and theme lucidly through its characters and story.
50
Remarkably dull Hud more or less plays out as a home-on-the-range knock-off of Nicholas Ray’s brilliant Rebel Without a Cause.
50
Paul Newman in his first ascendancy, as the favorite antihero of the Kennedy era. Martin Ritt directed, putting a little too much dust in the dust bowl for my taste.
