Argo
(Warner, $29)
Ben Affleck’s Golden Globe winner proved “the rare nail-biter that’s also riotously funny,” said USA Today. Affleck both directs and stars—as a CIA operative who concocts a fictitious sci-fi movie in a bid to rescue a small group of Americans trapped in revolutionary Iran.
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