Matthew McConaughey spent the 2000s in romantic comedies that made money and did nothing for him, then stopped taking them entirely and waited, which the press eventually named the McConaissance.
Killer Joe, Mud, Magic Mike and True Detective followed, and Dallas Buyers Club won him Best Actor after a substantial weight loss.
Interstellar and Dazed and Confused bracket the career, the latter giving him a supporting role he improvised much of, including the line about high school girls, which he has been asked about for thirty years.
Matthew McConaugheyTrue Detective's pilot rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Two detectives are interviewed in 2012 about a case from 1995, and the gap between what they say and what the audience is shown is the entire architecture.…
Abbey LeeThe Dark Tower (2017) rates 3 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Eight novels written across thirty-four years were compressed into ninety-five minutes, which is the shortest running time any studio fantasy has attempted this century. Idris Elba and…
Ben AffleckRichard Linklater's 1993 last-day-of-school 1976 ensemble. Affleck, McConaughey, Adam Goldberg breakthroughs.
Josh LucasThe Lincoln Lawyer is Brad Furman's 2011 American courtroom thriller adapting Michael Connelly's 2005 novel. The work launched the McConaughey career resurgence that subsequent productions including Mud (2012), Dallas Buyers Club (2013), and True Detective (2014) would extend.
Anne HathawayInterstellar is a bad film that has convinced a large number of people it's a profound one. The misdirection is accomplished through scale: everything is so large, so loud, so visually ambitious, so heavily scored that the emptiness at the…
James WoodsContact is a film about a scientist so committed to empirical evidence that she rejects faith, who then has a transcendent personal experience, returns with no physical evidence it occurred, and is expected by the film to continue believing in…
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