Argo currently has an average rating of 7.4 out of 10 and has been rated by 895 users on our platform.
'Argo' is the most accomplished of Affleck's three great directorial efforts. An excellent example of perfectly tuned suspense (despite the well-known mechanics of viewer manipulation, remarkably effective). It's a masterpiece ...
...plays like a big Hollywood movie and succeeds despite the hundreds of ways it could have failed.
Read full review at Paste Magazine...a superbly crafted and darkly funny real-life political thriller, with pitch-perfect performances.
Read full review at Usa Today...a terrifically entertaining thriller that’s based on a true incident that occurred in 1980 at the height of the American hostage crisis in Iran.
Read full review at The Austin ChronicleTony Mendez (Ben Affleck) is an exfil expert. When people are unexpectedly caught in bad or scary situations, he gets them out.
Read full review at PopmattersAffleck does one of his soundest acting jobs – topping The Town...
Read full review at The TelegraphIt is so easy to manufacture a thriller from chases and gunfire, and so very hard to fine-tune it out of exquisite timing and a plot that's so clear to us we wonder why it isn't obvious to the Iranians.
Read full review at Roger EbertBen Affleck's electrically suspenseful, cunningly original true-life thriller, is the rare movie that has great fun while touching a raw political nerve.
Read full review at Entertainment WeeklyAffleck has taken an unbelievable slice of reality and miraculously improved upon the truth, and the results could hardly be more satisfying.
Read full review at We Got This CoveredAn old-school espionage thriller with a movie-biz comedy twist, all the better for being (almost) entirely true.
Read full review at Empire...careful, involving film that turns one of recent history’s strangest footnotes into a gripping thriller...
Read full review at The A.V. ClubAffleck's Argo is an oddball mix of political thriller and movie biz satire...
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...en mysig nagelbitarthriller löst baserad på gisslandramat i Teheran 1980 där CIA:s fritagningsexpert Tony Mendez (spelad av Affleck själv) smugglade ut sex amerikanska diplomater...
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