AIDS crisis told wryly, well in 'Dallas Buyers Club'    •
'Dallas Buyers Club' stars Jared Leto, left, as a transsexual
AIDS patient, and Matthew McConaughey as a homophobic party boy
who, after being diagnosed with HIV, smuggles HIV drugs into the
U.S. due to the lack of approved treatments. (Focus Features)
What's been missing from all the movies about AIDS and the
history of the AIDS crisis is that Matthew McConaughey swagger.
And we never would have realized that if he hadn't made “Dallas
Buyers Club.”  Here's a film about the early years of the crisis
packed with a healthy dose of evolving attitudes about AIDS and
homosexuality and good-ol'-boy get-'er-done optimism. And if
McConaughey and his co-star Jared Leto don't earn Oscar
nominations for “Buyers Club,” I'll eat my 10-gallon hat.  We
meet Ron Woodroof as a sweaty, scrawny sex machine — profane,
homophobic, coke-snorting, whiskey-drinking and gaunt, gaunt,
gaunt.  It's not a good look for McConaughey, who lost a lot of
weight for this film. It's no