I've always been a fan of McConaughey. He was underrated for a long time and seems to have come into his own in past ten years. His most notable performances of the nineties were in Contact and A Time to Kill.
He has become one of the best actor in the business and won his first Oscar in 2014. I hope to see more great performances from him in the future.
5. Frailty
During this psychological thriller McConaughey recounts his horrific childhood to a detective in order to crack an unsolved twenty-year-old case. In a Usual Suspects style the film flashes back and forth from his childhood back to the police station. He tells the detective about his childhood and the psychological and physical abuse he and his brother were subjected to by their religious nut father (Bill Paxton). Frailty is a dark and disturbing crime thriller in which McConaughey play both victim and perpetrator perfectly.
4. A Time To Kill
A Time To Kill is a courtroom drama is which McConaughey plays a young maverick lawyer named Jake Tyler Brigance, who's services are called on by Carl Lee Hailey (Samuel L. Jackson). Hailey shot to rednecks for raping and beating his young daughter, and Brigance agrees to defend him in court (a decision the locals are not very pleased with). The film turns into a big civil rights drama with the KKK marching around and race riots on the streets of the small town in the deep south. This is McConaughey's stand-out performance of the nineties, the highlight of which is the moving speech he gives in the courtroom at the end of the film.
3. Interstellar
Interstellar is one of the best sci-fi films ever made (A I'm sure Christopher Nolan fans will love to hear), and McConaughey's is superb. In this space epic he plays a former astronaut turned farmer, who is called upon to save mankind by his former Nasa colleges. He has to make some big sacrifices along the way resulting in truckloads of emotion perfectly conveyed by him performance.
2. Mud
Mud is a coming-of-age tale about a group of boys who sail to a small island and discover a fugitive called Mud living there in a old boat. McConaughey is great as the enigmatic fugitive/drifter, acting as a role model to the boys, while at the same time trying to stay out of reach of the law. With McConaughey coming from a similar background, these kind of films suit him down to tee.
1. Dallas Buyers Club
In this at times hilarious, tragic and moving tale about a man who contracts aids, McConaughey puts in the performance of his career. He plays a cowboy, bull riding redneck chauvinist who likes beer and the ladies, and who didn't even realise he could catch aids from having unprotected sex. The film is moving story about breaking rules in a quest for survival. Both Jared Leto and McConaughey's performances were brilliant in this.
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