All Matthew McConaughey Movies Ranked 

Adjusted Score: 107713%

Critics Consensus: Kubo and the Two Strings matches its incredible animation with an absorbing — and bravely melancholy — story that has something to offer audiences of all ages.

Adjusted Score: 105302%

Critics Consensus: Bolstered by a strong performance from Matthew McConaughey in the title role, Mud offers an engaging Southern drama that manages to stay sweet and heartwarming without being sappy.

Adjusted Score: 99603%

Critics Consensus: Featuring an excellent ensemble cast, a precise feel for the 1970s, and a killer soundtrack, Dazed and Confused is a funny, affectionate, and clear-eyed look at high school life.

Adjusted Score: 104394%

Critics Consensus: Dallas Buyers Club rests squarely on Matthew McConaughey’s scrawny shoulders, and he carries the burden gracefully with what might be a career-best performance.

Adjusted Score: 101270%

Critics Consensus: Smart and absorbing, Lone Star represents a career high point for writer-director John Sayles — and ’90s independent cinema in general.

Adjusted Score: 94534%

Critics Consensus: Richard Linklater’s Bernie is a gently told and unexpectedly amusing true-crime comedy that benefits from an impressive performance by Jack Black.

Adjusted Score: 89726%

Critics Consensus: It doesn’t offer any twists on the predictable courtroom thriller formula, but with a charming Matthew McConaughey leading its solid cast, The Lincoln Lawyer offers briskly enjoyable entertainment.

Adjusted Score: 86709%

Critics Consensus: Thirteen Conversations About One Thing is an intelligent and poignant look at lives intersecting.

Adjusted Score: 92302%

Critics Consensus: With biting satire, plenty of subversive humor, and an unforgettable turn by Robert Downey, Jr., Tropic Thunder is a triumphant late summer comedy.

Adjusted Score: 86501%

Critics Consensus: Violent, darkly comic, and full of strong performances, Killer Joe proves William Friedkin hasn’t lost his touch, even if the plot may be too lurid for some.

Adjusted Score: 92436%

Critics Consensus: Funny, self-referential, and irreverent to a fault, The Wolf of Wall Street finds Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio at their most infectiously dynamic.

Adjusted Score: 88199%

Critics Consensus: Magic Mike‘s sensitive direction, smart screenplay, and strong performances allow audiences to have their beefcake and eat it too.

Adjusted Score: 82318%

Critics Consensus: Heartfelt without resorting to preachiness, Amistad tells an important story with engaging sensitivity and absorbing skill.

Adjusted Score: 89565%

Critics Consensus: It may not win writer-director Guy Ritchie many new converts, but for those already attuned to the filmmaker’s brash wavelength, The Gentlemen stands tall.

Adjusted Score: 80031%

Critics Consensus: Creepy and disturbing, Frailty is well-crafted, low-key horror.

Adjusted Score: 91417%

Critics Consensus: Interstellar represents more of the thrilling, thought-provoking, and visually resplendent filmmaking moviegoers have come to expect from writer-director Christopher Nolan, even if its intellectual reach somewhat exceeds its grasp.

Adjusted Score: 81556%

Critics Consensus: Pack your bags and leave them Boys on the Side to experience the kind of sisterhood that makes you laugh and cry through the bumpy, quirky road of life.

Adjusted Score: 78332%

Critics Consensus: Second verse, same as the first: For audiences that enjoyed the first installment, Sing 2 should prove another endearing diversion.

Adjusted Score: 79608%

Critics Consensus: Sing delivers colorfully animated, cheerfully undemanding entertainment with a solid voice cast and a warm-hearted — albeit familiar — storyline that lives up to its title.

Adjusted Score: 72387%

Critics Consensus: Excellent cinematography and an interesting plot accompanied by a talented cast and crew make U-571 a tense thriller.

Adjusted Score: 72238%

Critics Consensus: Contact elucidates stirring scientific concepts and theological inquiry at the expense of satisfying storytelling, making for a brainy blockbuster that engages with its ideas, if not its characters.

Adjusted Score: 70557%

Critics Consensus: Overlong and superficial, A Time to Kill nonetheless succeeds on the strength of its skillful craftsmanship and top-notch performances.

Adjusted Score: 66802%

Critics Consensus: The Newton Boys uses a sharp cast and absorbing period detail to help make up for the frustrations of a story puzzlingly short on dramatic tension.

Adjusted Score: 64745%

Critics Consensus: If it’s not as ambitious as The Truman Show in satirizing the voyeuristic nature of television, EdTV is an amiable, witty comedy with fine performances from Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson.

Adjusted Score: 64107%

Critics Consensus: The role of a lifetime for Matthew McConaughey, The Beach Bum is set apart by Harmony Korine’s distinctive style, but that isn’t always enough to offset the unfocused story.

Adjusted Score: 64173%

Critics Consensus: Solid work from the cast – particularly a scene-stealing Matthew McConaughey – helps White Boy Rick make up for a number of missed opportunities in the script.

Adjusted Score: 56864%

Critics Consensus: Free State of Jones has the noblest of intentions, but they aren’t enough to make up for its stilted treatment of a fascinating real-life story.

Adjusted Score: 52816%

Critics Consensus: Matthew McConaughey almost runs We Are Marshall to the end zone, but can’t stop it from taking the easy, feel-good route in memorializing this historic event in American sports.

Adjusted Score: 52540%

Critics Consensus: Trashy and melodramatic, The Paperboy is enlivened by a strong cast and a steamy, sordid plot, but it’s uneven and often veers into camp.

Adjusted Score: 50606%

Critics Consensus: Gold boasts an impressively committed performance from Matthew McConaughey, but it’s just one glittering nugget in an otherwise uneven heap of cinematic silt.

Adjusted Score: 46969%

Critics Consensus: Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson are charming together, but they can’t overcome How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days‘ silly premise and predictable script.

Adjusted Score: 46734%

Critics Consensus: Reign of Fire gains some altitude with its pyrotechnic action and a smolderingly campy Matthew McConaughey, but the feature’s wings are clipped by a derivative script and visual effects that fizzle out.

Adjusted Score: 43441%

Critics Consensus: A mindless adventure flick with a preposterous plot.

Adjusted Score: 32417%

Critics Consensus: A queasy mishmash of poignant drama and slapstick fantasy, Angels in the Outfield strikes out as worthy family entertainment.

Adjusted Score: 33448%

Critics Consensus: A retread of A Christmas Carol, featuring Matthew McConaughey in a retread of his Dazed and Confused role, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past lacks originality, humor, and any semblance of charm.

Adjusted Score: 28926%

Critics Consensus: The few comic gags sprinkled throughout the movie fail to spice up this formulaic rom-com.

Adjusted Score: 25635%

Critics Consensus: Despite its sportsmanlike swagger, Two for the Money’s aimless plot isn’t worth betting on.

Adjusted Score: 7928%

Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.

Adjusted Score: 31246%

Critics Consensus: A high-concept mystery with a twist, Serenity isn’t what it appears to be at first — unfortunately, it’s also not anywhere near as clever or entertaining as it thinks.

Adjusted Score: 20417%

Critics Consensus: Instead of being light and charming, this romantic comedy is heavy-handed and contrived in its execution. Also, it’s too unoriginal.

Adjusted Score: 18735%

Critics Consensus: Dull, maudlin, and fundamentally empty, The Sea of Trees extinguishes the contributions of a talented cast and marks a depressing low point in director Gus Van Sant’s career.

Adjusted Score: 31320%

Critics Consensus: Go then, there are other Stephen King adaptations than these.

Adjusted Score: 18215%

Critics Consensus: The Next Generation has the fortune of starring early-career Matthew McConaughey and Renée Zellweger, but it services neither headliner well in a convoluted and cheap-looking slasher that doesn’t live up to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre legacy.

Adjusted Score: 16575%

Critics Consensus: With little chemistry among the performers, humorless gags, and a predictable storyline, Fool’s Gold fails on every level.

Adjusted Score: 11439%

Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.

Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.