Awards season may have its popular favorite. Ben Affleck's Argo opened with a bigger-than-expected $20.1 million Friday-Sunday, per estimates. The Liam Neeson holdover, Taken 2, held on for a second straight weekend box-office win, with $22.5 million,"Argo" has done something few films this year can claim: Connect both audiences and critics in unison. Ben Affleck's Oscar favorite opened with $5.3 million on Friday, according to estimates reported by Variety and TheWrap.And unlike his other guises, he's gotten better each time out — from the promising "Gone Baby Gone" to the more assured "The Town" to the dazzling "Argo," which garnered strong reviews and box office this weekend. What's striking is not that AffleckAffleck's critically lauded political thriller Argo couldn't quite overtake Neeson's Taken 2, which held the box-office crown for the second straight weekend. Taken 2 earned $22.5 million, box-office tracker Hollywood.com says. That brought the sequelREVIEW: "Argo" is a crackerjack political thriller told with intelligence, great period detail and a surprising amount of nutty humor for a serious look at the Iran hostage crisis of 1979-81. Proving even more than before that he's a
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