Informative but tedious talking-head doc Our Man in Tehran is for anyone who watched Argo and then wished to hear a ditzy, history-obsessed uncle ramble about the real-life political stakes of the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis. Co-directors Drew Taylor and Larry Weinstein inadvertently make well-spoken experts like former National Security Councilman Gary Sick and American Consulate officer Bob Anders look embarrassingly unfocused. They make Sick and Anders talk too much about the Carter administration's fraught attitude toward Ayatollah Khomeini and Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and not enough about Canadian diplomat Ken Taylor, the title subject and the man who sheltered the six American hostages who escaped Tehran during the retroactively named "Canadian Cap...
- 5/13/2015
- Village Voice
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