Argo

You know, Ben Affleck is a pretty good director. Remember the meme about how Matt Damon probably only wrote Good Will Hunting and Affleck just put his name on it? Over the years, it seems increasingly like it might be the reverse. That being said, while Argo is a tense, often exciting film, it also has hallmarks of Hollywoodization to up the tension in ways that betray its efforts to act like its playing things straight, taking what could have been a lower key and effective thriller into one...