Cut to 2009 and Damon is back on the big screen as a wacky whistleblower in Steven Soderbergh's "The Informant!"

"The movie's fun to watch, but you can tell it was a lot more fun to make, and that's a problem. The party stays up on the screen; down here, it's been over for a year," writes Globe critic Ty Burr. "That the movie works as well as it does is due to Matt Damon, who plays the real-life corporate whistle-blower Mark Whitacre with comic verve and a really bad head of hair." (Read the full review.)

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