Ben Affleck’s new film, which dramatises part of the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, aims to be a send-up of Hollywood as well as an action-packed tale of true espionage; unfortunately, it takes liberties with the facts, and is bogged down by a commitment to period style. Continue reading True Hollywood Story: Argo

Directed seemingly only for the paycheck by Jørgen Leth’s son Asgar, and written by some hack called Pablo F. Fenjves, this is the kind of disposable Hollywood garbage that, once you start to think about its many faults, falls to pieces very quickly. Continue reading Man on a Ledge

See this low-budget triumph not because it breaks new ground or because it’s emotionally devastating—it doesn’t, really, and it isn’t—but because its twin lead performances are so fantastically sincere. Continue reading Out on the Weekend