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Matthew McConaughey’s portrayal of a Texas bigot who becomes an unlikely hero during the 1980s AIDS crisis will go down as “the performance of his career,” said The Washington Post. The actor turns “a snaky, sinewy shape-shifter” of a man into a protagonist we can’t help but root for.
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