3 BuzzVerdicts, ranked by rating across Movies (2), Books (1)
2013 · Jean-Marc Vallée · 117 min · Drama
Dallas Buyers Club is a raw, unflinching drama elevated by two transformative performances that turn a story about the AIDS crisis into a fiercely personal tale of survival and unlikely activism.
2003 · Donald Petrie · 116 min · Romance / Comedy
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days runs the genre's best dueling-deceptions premise, a columnist driving a man away for an article while he makes her fall in love for a bet, and neither knows they're both performing. Kate Hudson weaponizes clinginess with a comedian's precision, Matthew McConaughey absorbs the assault at full charm, and the film's spectacle of two professionals sabotaging each other into real feelings built a permanent rotation classic. The premise requires two liars the audience must forgive, the magazine world is pure cartoon, and the ending forgives faster than it should. The couple's fern outlived every objection.
2020 · Matthew McConaughey · 304 pages · Memoir
McConaughey's freewheeling memoir is as charming and chaotic as the man himself, packed with wild stories and folksy wisdom that lands powerfully when it connects and feels like motivational poster philosophy when it doesn't.