Argo

Hosted by Joe Morgenstern Oct. 12, 2012 Entertainment

It's often said of incredible but true stories that you can't make such stuff up...

Ben Affleck's has, in a suspenseful political thriller with a stranger than fiction subplot and a movie within a movie... Argo exults in what a movie can do when its story has a compelling core...

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