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Mud

(Lions Gate, $20)

Matthew McConaughey brings “beautifully realized angst” to the title role in this effective drama about an Arkansas drifter who enlists two teenage boys in his bid to win a woman’s heart, said the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. An “excellent” Reese Witherspoon co-stars.

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The Sapphires

(Anchor Bay, $27)

This tale about a girl group in 1960s Australia is “nearly impossible to resist,” said USA Today. Bridesmaids’ Chris O’Dowd proves “a charmer” as a talent scout who convinces the young women to sing soul music, and “the transcendent vitality” of the era’s music does the rest.

Lord of the Flies

(Criterion, $30)

Theater director Peter Brook knew what he was doing when he chose to improvise his way through adapting William Golding’s novel, said the Norfolk, Va., Virginian-Pilot. In Brook’s powerful 1963 drama about schoolboys reverting to savagery on a desert island, “there is no artifice.”