The Dallas Buyers Club screened at the Toronto Film Festival over the weekend and has been receiving strong reviews, especially the performances by the two leads.
The screening for the movie was packed, according to Los Angeles Times, with the critic barely snagging a seat in the last row of the packed Princess of Wales Theatre.
The movie has been receiving positive praise since the packed screening, but most of the focus has been around the two lead stars played by Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto. Reviewers are talking about how they should be in the Oscar conversation come awards season.
Tim Robey of The Telegraph said, "McConaughey's recent run of acclaimed, full-throttle turns in left-field indies (Mud, Killer Joe, Magic Mike) has finally culminated here in a role that Oscar votes will be powerless to keep off their shortlist."
Robey also says Leto, McConaughey's co-star, "performs a kind of resuscitating miracle on [his] career."
New York Post's Lou Lumenick says "McConaughey has never been better" and "a virtually unrecognizable Leto tears your heart out."
The Hollywood Reporter's Scott Feinberg believes the two actors will be hard to keep off the nominations list, giving McConaughey his first ever nomination if all goes well.
As previously reported, the Leto and McConaughey both lost nearly 40 pounds each for their roles in the film. All the reviewers noted how distressingly gaunt the two looked throughout the film.
The Dallas Buyers Club opens Nov. 1 in theaters.
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