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Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: If the camera occasionally suffers a fashionable case of the jitters, the movie transcends its agitated verismo to impart dramatic and behavioral truth. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: Despite its downbeat context (a plague at its height), the movie is a crowd-pleaser-graceful and funny enough to distract you from its gaps and elisions. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: It's a remarkable story, vividly and urgently told by French-Canadian director Vallee from a pointed, schmaltz-free script by Craig Borten and Melissa Wallack. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: Dallas Buyers Club represents the best of what independent film on a limited budget can achieve-powerful, enlightening and not to be missed. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: Matthew McConaughey continues to amaze. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Dallas Buyers Club" explores an era that's been too-little seen on film: the early AIDS years, when people were dying and helplessness and fear seemed to float in the air. Read more
Peter Debruge, Variety: Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto give terrific performances in this riveting and surprisingly relatable true story. Read more
A.A. Dowd, AV Club: 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. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: Vallee, working from a script by Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack, infuses the film with some humor - Woodroof's posing as a priest as he smuggles drugs from Mexico is a hoot - but he never lets us forget that the stakes are deadly serious. Read more
Jake Coyle, Associated Press: Vallee directs ''Dallas Buyers Club'' with a loose naturalism, seedy environs and lively humor that prevents the film from becoming over-sentimentalized. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: The movie's often touching and very watchable, but what gets you past the script's sincere calculation is the growing sense of rage toward a medical-industrial complex that saw AIDS sufferers as guinea pigs and sources of profit. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: However creaky this might be as drama, it's a fascinating look at an underground economy and the politics of medicine. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Does a few things wrong but a lot right, starting right at the top with McConaughey. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: The real halo here belongs to McConaughey. He does justice to Ron's story and to his own quicksilver talent. Read more
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: The movie, based on a true story, shows how empathy has the power to destroy intolerance where it stands. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: Played with raw, rattling fury and grace by Matthew McConaughey, Woodroof is a tarnished protagonist of the first order. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: The AIDS epidemic was not a happy-ending story. But it was certainly a test of the human spirit. Ron Woodroof passed that test. Read more
Cary Darling, Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com: The simplistic Dallas Buyers Club is worth seeing, if for no other reason than McConaughey's transformative and touching performance. Read more
Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly: If there was any doubt that McConaughey is more than just a tawny-chested rom-com stud, there should be no question anymore. Read more
Jordan Hoffman, Film.com: 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. Read more
David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter: This is a full-bodied characterization that will take McConaughey's already impressive career regeneration several steps further. Read more
Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: [McConaughey and Leto] elevate the movie beyond ordinary biography or overplayed tragedy, and give Oscar-worthy performances in the process. Read more
Randy Myers, San Jose Mercury News: The screenplay by Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack doesn't yield to pat pronouncements or solutions, refusing to turn Woodroof into a huggable savior, even when his views about gays shift. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: A straight-up portrait of a man who figured out a way to cling to life longer than anyone expected and, in the process, learned to let the world in. Read more
Rafer Guzman, Newsday: A solid biopic is made transcendent by McConaughey, who shed nearly 50 pounds and deserves to gain an Oscar for his ferocious, funny performance. Read more
David Denby, New Yorker: It's McConaughey's spiritual transformation that is most remarkable. His gaze is at once desperate and challenging. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: This is McConaughey's movie, and definitive proof that he is back to being the actor we always thought he was, or could be, since "Dazed and Confused." Read more
Bob Mondello, NPR: Dallas Buyers Club is just about a selfish boor who arguably gets a pass in terms of posterity, because while looking out for No. 1, he paved the way for change for everyone else. Read more
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: The commitment McConaughey brings is something to behold ... Woodroof's mix of Texas blowhard and eccentric bozo is clearly his strong suit. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: Matthew McConaughey brings a jolt of unpredictable energy to "Dallas Buyers Club," an affecting if conventional real-life story of medical activism. Read more
Michael Sragow, Orange County Register: A trio of terrific performers imbues a riveting AIDS drama with heart and mind as well as pertinence. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: Just about everything is right with Dallas Buyers Club, beginning with Matthew McConaughey's literally transformative portrayal. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: In many ways, the film is all about Matthew McConaughey, and Canadian director Jean-Marc Vallee is wise enough to train his focus on the actor. Read more
Richard Roeper, Richard Roeper.com: Once we get past McConaughey's stunning transformation, we're transfixed by a performance that reminds us of why this guy became a movie star in the first place. Read more
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: [Matthew McConaughey's] explosive, unerring portrayal defines what makes an actor great, blazing commitment to a character and the range to make every nuance felt. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: Despite its cliched elements, "Dallas Buyers Club" is a fierce celebration of the unpredictable power that belongs to the outcast, the despised, the pariah. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: "Dallas Buyers Club" takes audiences back to the worst of the AIDS crisis, where the disease was a death sentence, and the public's terror and hostility were at its height. Read more
Dana Stevens, Slate: This is a movie that traffics in deep hindbrain emotions: fear and rage and lust and, above all, the pure animal drive to go on living. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: This is the performance of McConaughey's newly resurgent career. Read more
Calvin Wilson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: One of the best films of the year. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Script and pacing problems aside, Dallas Buyers Club remains an awards-worthy showcase of McConaughey's and Leto's ferocious talents, matched only by their astonishing physical decline onscreen. Read more
Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: McConaughey is the only reason to see Dallas Buyers Club, but he's enough of a reason to see Dallas Buyers Club. Read more
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: Dallas Buyers Club fits our Breaking Bad moment perfectly, offering a difficult hero whose personal code takes on an intriguing coherence. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: McConaughey proves he has evolved from a handsome lightweight to one of the most talented, risk-taking actors in Hollywood. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Village Voice: What's remarkable about Dallas Buyers Club is its lack of sentimentality. The movie, like its star, is all angles and elbows, earning its emotion through sheer pragmatism. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: McConaughey delivers the performance of his career, characterized not just by an astonishing physical transformation but by a wellspring of deep compassion and fearlessness. Read more