Outstanding performances, tone, cinematography, and an all around fantastic movie!

Rating: 9/10 (20 January 2014)

9/10 Dallas Buyers Club by Jean-Marc Vallée was one fantastic movie, and a very good contender for the Oscars this year. The movie itself was fairly straight forward, but it brought it's all in terms of acting, cinematography and writing. A very "enjoyable" movie with a great message, great heart and fantastic execution; a must see in my book.
Jean-Marc Vallée brought us a fantastic movie with 'Dallas'. I had never seen any of his work before, and I am excited to see more from him, hopefully soon. His finished product is an incredible, heartbreaking, emotional and beautiful piece of film. Something I am most of all impressed by is its very low budget of under six million dollars. It is common for movies in recent years to have bloated budgets ten times the size of this one, in the 50-60 million range, and not pack even one-tenth the punch as this movie did.
The performances in this movie are all outstanding and noteworthy, and the chemistry between the actors is fantastic. McConaughey, Leto and Garner bring the characters to life and make them feel real opposed to many "real life" movies where the characters end of feeling plastic.
I would definitely see this movie again. Dallas Buyers Club will be a hard one to forget for it's outstanding performances, emotion, tone great cinematography and superb writing.
See my "too long for IMDb" review of Dallas Buyers Club at MovieView.org