'Argo' holds your attention in a vice-like grip

Fiction couldn’t be any stranger than the truth in Argo, based on real-life events following the 1979 storming of the US Embassy in Tehran.

Ben Affleck is a deserved front runner for the Best Director statuette at next year’s Academy Awards for his work on this gripping thriller that keeps us teetering on the edge of our seats for the entire two hours.