Film · Warner Bros. · 2012
Pass it on
Argo
53Watch it awake.
The escape is true. The film moves too much courage onto Hollywood. Adults, awake.
The review
Six people are trapped in a city that will kill them if the door opens wrong. The fear in that house is the real film. A false film crew is a clever tool, and cleverness under fear is worth watching.
The picture cannot resist giving the movies the medal. Canadians, diplomats, and the people in the back room did the longer brave thing. Watch it, then put the credit back where the history had it. Older children can take the airport. Tell them who is missing from the applause.
Journal
Keep Argo in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 53. Yours can differ.
The glance
Household and Piety and Truth are the thin ones.
Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
Oppenheimer
65 instead of 53
Oppenheimer is still a history film, and it scores 65 instead of 53. What you gain is truth: The hearing is about lies, loyalty oaths, and a truth that arrived after the use.
The eight
- 7Industry
A cover story has to be built: names, calls, a fake movie. The craft is the suspense.
- 4Household
The six are a fragile household in a back room. Their families are offscreen.
- 3Piety
Faith is local color. The prayer is not the plan.
- 7Courage
They walk into an airport with nothing but a story.
- 6Republic
A state hides them, and a state hunts them. Diplomats do a quieter brave thing than the film likes.
- 6Temperance
The tension is earned by waiting, not by a body count.
- 4Truth
It compresses a rescue so that a movie man can be the hinge. The compression flatters the movies.
- 5Stewardship
What they want is to get home. That want is clean.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
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