“Useful” Omissions: On LINCOLN and ARGO

Written for the February 2013 issue of Caiman Cuadernos de Cine, as one of my bimonthly columns for that magazine (”En movimiento”). It continues to amaze me how American movies who preach the inescapable inevitability of corruption in American life — Citizen Kane, The Godfather films, and now Lincoln and Zero Dark Thirty — are [...]