Gold

The reason we needed to have a McConnaissance was because Mathew McConaghey is simultaneously a quite likeable and a quite lazy actor. He is quite capable of coasting on his not inconsiderable charm in vehicles that don't reward that with anything else interesting going on.

And while he does some considerable physical transformation for "Gold" (putting on a fair bit of weight and going bald), he's still basically playing the all round good-ol-boy type, and not ding anything particularly new or interesting with it. The plot is fairly standard issue - the rise and fall of a gold-mining entrepreneur as his discovery in Indonesia is compromised both by political and financial forces that he doesn't quite control, and while using the "inspired by a true story"trope, it changes names and characters extensively (in particular, pretty much to match McConaghey's usual persona - although all the unflattering history of the Suharto family does seem to have survived). The Indonesia section of the film is a little intriguing, although it's abandoned in favour of more conventional state-side shenanigans, but all in all this ends up being a fairly flat experience without very much to recommend it. Bryce Dallas Howard has another not-very-good-girlfriend role (although she does at least get to be around for the end of the movie), Edgar Ramirez has a nice presence but is pretty marginalised for a lot of the film (particularly the stateside stuff), and Corey Stoll does good snooty glowering but it never pays off into anything bigger.

So this is more gestures towards what could be a good movie than an actually good movie.