Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
Average Rating: 7.8/10
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Critic Reviews: 5
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Matthew McConaughey stars in DALLAS BUYERS CLUB as real-life Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof, whose free-wheeling life was overturned in 1985 when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive and given 30 days to live. These were the early days of the AIDS epidemic, and the U.S. was divided over how to combat the virus. Ron, now shunned and ostracized by many of his old friends, and bereft of government-approved effective medicines, decided to take matters in his own hands, tracking down alternative treatments
Nov 1, 2013 Limited
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Cast
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Matthew McConaughey
Ron Woodroof -
Jared Leto
Rayon -
Jennifer Garner
Dr. Eve Saks -
Dallas Roberts
David Wayne -
Steve Zahn
Tucker -
Griffin Dunne
Dr. Vass -
Denis O'Hare
Dr. Sevard -
Kevin Rankin
T.J. -
Michael O'Neill
Richard Barkley -
Donna DuPlantier
Nurse Frazin -
Deneen D. Tyler
Denise -
J.D. Evermore
Clint -
Ian Casselberry
Hispanic Orderly -
Noelle Wilcox
Kelly -
Bradford Cox
Sunny -
Rick Espaillat
Michael -
Lawrence Turner
Foreman -
Lucius Falick
Freddie -
James DuMont
Rayon's Father -
Jane McNeill
Francine Suskind -
Don Brady
Tucker's Father -
Matthew Thompson
Effeminate Man -
Tony Bentley
Judge -
Sean Boyd
Border Agent -
Rachel Wulff
News Anchor -
Neeona Neal
Stripper -
Scott Takeda
Mr. Yamata -
Joji Yoshida
Dr. Hiroshi -
Carl Palmer
FDA Customs Agent -
Martin Covert
Ian -
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Craig Borten
Quicksilver Cowboy -
Arthur Smith
Rodeo Announcer
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All Critics (24) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (22) | Rotten (2)
If the camera occasionally suffers a fashionable case of the jitters, the movie transcends its agitated verismo to impart dramatic and behavioral truth.
Top CriticMcConaughey is the only reason to see Dallas Buyers Club, but he's enough of a reason to see Dallas Buyers Club.
Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto give terrific performances in this riveting and surprisingly relatable true story.
This is a full-bodied characterization that will take McConaughey's already impressive career regeneration several steps further.
The fireworks caused by pitting never-say-die Texas bravado against heartlessness is a powerful mix, and the film manages to be an inspiring tale amidst all this sadness.
Dallas Buyer's Club doesn't want your love, it wants your respect and all the work's on the screen.
Conventional but never sanctimonious, it balances out its familiar recovery angle with a healthy measure of sardonic wit.
Excellent. Matthew McConaughey gives an impressively unselfconscious, award-worthy performance as perhaps the most anti-heroic of all the antiheroes who have ever appeared on the silver screen.
Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto are virtual shoo-ins for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor nominations for their dazzling roles in this tale about the fight for a cure for HIV/AIDS.
Ron's transition from redneck bigot to emphatic defender of the marginalized doesn't feel cheap or forced, instead building up to a graceful, moving moment of classical chivalry.
The film is a sad reminder of how far from such freedoms the country has come, in favor of a thoroughly monitored military state that inspires public shootings more than humanist actions.
Though the subject matter inevitably seems a little sexed-up and contrived compared to recent docs like How to Survive a Plague, director Jean-Marc Vallée rarely wastes an ounce of Matthew McConaughey's gusto.
For a movie about dying of AIDS, Dallas Buyers Club is really fun. Woodroof is beating the system so the process of obtaining and sharing drugs while skirting around federal regulations is engaging.
Despite its good intentions and moxie-filled performances, Dallas Buyers Club is ultimately marred by its impulse to compromise its freewheeling humanity in favor of crowd-pleasing tropes.
The movie adds vulgar emotional sweetener. It's Erin Cockovich.
Although the pace wavers near the end, director Vallée does a fine job handling the difficult material, which spans years and countries. Expect major acting nominations come awards season.
For the majority of the time, it wrestles with the heavy material like the cowboys and cattle at the rodeo that frames its events, and McConaughey proves himself a proficient rider.
There's still something undeniably moving about the film's trajectory, which allows McConaughey to blossom into an empathetic figure-one whose homophobia fades as his fighting spirit intensifies-without losing his rapscallion spirit.
Dallas Buyers Club features two tremendous performances from its leads Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto, but that's about all it has to offer.
At just under two hours, it's a little long, but the blend of biting character study and campaigning pharmaceutical docudrama is zesty and memorable.
It is a powerful real-life story, brimming with terrific performances and also punctuated by delightful visual flourishes.
[McConaughey] delivers a twitchy, hostile performance on par with anything he's done since he escaped the rom com cul-de-sac.
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