Argo

L'acteur y va ici d'une performance on ne peut plus convaincante tout en sachant faire preuve de retenue pour éviter que lui ou son personnage n'en viennent à faire de l'ombre au reste de la distribution ou à la mise en situation comme telle, témoignant d'une compréhension pour le moins exceptionnelle des deux champs d'expertise que l'artiste devait diriger, et surtout jumeler.

Made with brisk confidence and technical precision, Argo is a spy thriller of a buttoned-up old school variety; we're not given a lot of emotional attachments to these characters, and the reward for a job well done is a pat on the back, not an explosion of grateful tears.

From the brilliant opening sequence to the final few frames, Affleck and company offer an intelligent and scarily real tale of heroism. Much like in real life, the heroes are unexpected and thus there is something very powerful about their conflicts.

Director Affleck scores again with a tight and tense political thriller sparked by unexpected humor.

Just so we're straight, Ben Affleck doesn't merely direct Argo, he directs the hell out of it, nailing the quickening pace, the wayward humor, the nerve-frying suspense.