Argo Reviews

The film, for all its ample smarts and solid academic craft, is just a great time at the movies.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

... a terrific piece of filmmaking.

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Ben Affleck is one of this generation's best directors and "Argo" is a tight, engaging thriller.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

Argo is director Ben Affleck's weakest effort by far, but still a well-made, performance-driven historical drama.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

The only reason to watch Argo is because it's heavily padded, and while it works pretty well regardless, I wouldn't hold that up as an example of high quality filmmaking.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10

Ben Affleck is a director who appreciates the art of storytelling and masters the rare virtue of restraint...

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

The sky's the limit for Ben Affleck right now, and its nothing less than he deserves.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Ben Affleck's wildly entertaining thriller Argo is further proof of the old Hollywood adage that fiction is stranger than truth after all.

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Affleck spins the absurd true story into an engrossing espionage thriller that would be utterly ridiculous if the stakes weren't literally life-or-death.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

After Gone Baby Gone, The Town and now this directorial-best, Affleck is establishing himself as a major craftsman.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Affleck himself turns in a quietly impressive movie star performance. Tony Mendez is a kind of anti-Bourne, comfortable with his anonymity, living off his wits, not his fists.

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Affleck inserts such thoughtful commentary and ideas unobtrusively into his film; there's no ideological ball-peen hammer from the filmmaker to drive his beliefs into the audience.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Argo expertly builds tension and makes you wonder whether the mission will succeed.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

There are many heroes in Ben Affleck's spunky, polished political thriller. But the biggest hero is Hollywood itself.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

A strong yet uneven effort...

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

We are invested in this rescue mission not simply because these are fellow Americans in peril, but also because Argo takes the time to make each person behind enemy lines unique and authentic.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

An edge-of-your-seat thriller not to be forgotten at Oscar time!

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

'Argo' only clocks in at a two-hour running time and tells a much better story than the films that over-stuffed audiences with nearly three-hours.

Full Review | Original Score: B+

This may be the most geek-friendly movie that never did the rounds at Comic-Con.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

When Tony (Ben Affleck) lands in Tehran and trains the frightened Americans to play their parts as a Canadian film crew, Argo compares the ruses run by governments and movie studios.

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