Argo is test of Affleck’s confidence and boundaries. This is his first non-Boston based film—a thriller in which he plays a CIA specialist drafted to sneak six Americans out of Iran at a time when anti-American fervor is at its bloodiest.

There’s this great little film making some big noise, and it's back in Boston.

Seeing Whitney Houston one more time, especially as a healthy, maternal figure, gives this film its poignancy.

This year Paramount Pictures celebrates their 100th anniversary and this September the Harvard Film Archive is celebrating the famed studio by screening selected films from its considerable canon.

Dear Mandela is not a documentary about activism, but instead an exposé on the pressures of historical burdens put upon the self-taught, politically savvy, post-apartheid generation.