This is a well-paced, perfectly acted, and optimistic bio-pic set during the early days of the AIDS epidemic. Mathew McConaughey does a bang-up job here, which would have been almost inconceivable just a few years ago, when all he was doing was terrible rom-coms with no soul. Jared Leto almost steals the show with his insane method acting style and Jennifer Garner does a good job not acting exactly the same as she normally does in all her films, but scene after scene it was McConaughey that was always the strongest. Alright, alright, alright.

3.5 Stars (out of 5)