Argo (2012)

Published: May 5, 2020, 2:32 a.m.

Virtually every best picture winner of the 2010s was a total farce, no exception here. Ben Affleck got his flat-lining career back on track with a shock success in the directing chair with the superb Gone Baby Gone, followed with the half brilliant, half poor Heat rip-off, The Town, and this forgettable Iranian embassy siege drama was the weakest of the three yet won best picture. Go figure.