Editing Assassination Tango (section)

==Reception==
The film received a mixed reception. {{Rotten Tomatoes prose|48|5.6|88|Slow to start, this quirky film eventually overstays its welcome.|access-date=7 March 2025|ref=y}} {{MC film|51|30|access-date=15 December 2023|ref=y}}

Many critics criticized its slow pace and saw the film as nothing but personal self-indulgence from Duvall.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/malos-aires/content?oid=14792|title=Malos aires|publisher=Sacramento News Review|date=17 April 2003|accessdate=9 October 2013|archive-date=28 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230328092706/https://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/content/malos-aires/14792/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="SFC"/> [[Mick LaSalle]] of the ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' called the film "vanity project" and said that it's "hard to see what Duvall thinks is so interesting about the hit man, aside from the fact that he's playing him".<ref name="SFC">{{cite news|url=http://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/Duvall-s-gravity-weighs-on-Tango-Actor-s-2624516.php|title=Duvall's gravity weighs on 'Tango' / Actor's vanity project falls as flat as his ponytail|newspaper=[[San Francisco Chronicle]]|date=4 April 2003|accessdate=9 October 2013|archive-date=2 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202225920/http://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/Duvall-s-gravity-weighs-on-Tango-Actor-s-2624516.php|url-status=live}}</ref> Michael Luongo of [[Frommer's]] stated that the film was slow-paced, but "highlights his [Duvall's] obsession with Argentina and the tango, letting the city [Buenos Aires] serve as the backdrop".<ref name="Luongo2011"/> [[Roger Ebert]] awarded the film three stars out four and although he said that the film is "not quite successful", he considered it a "fascinating effort".<ref name="Ebert2005">{{cite book|last=Ebert|first=Roger|title=Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2006|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780740755385|url-access=registration|date=1 November 2005|publisher=Andrews McMeel Publishing|isbn=978-0-7407-5538-5|page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780740755385/page/36 36]}}</ref> However, he said that ''Assassination Tango'' is "not entirely about crime or dance, and that will be a problem for some audiences, although the little girl skipping in the playground scene really steals the show".<ref name="Ebert2004">{{cite book|last=Ebert|first=Roger|title=Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2005|url=https://archive.org/details/rogerebertsmovie0000eber_m5j7|url-access=registration|date=1 November 2004|publisher=Andrews McMeel Publishing|page=[https://archive.org/details/rogerebertsmovie0000eber_m5j7/page/34 34]|isbn=9780740747427 }}</ref> Amy K. Kaminsky {{Who|date=August 2022}} said that the film was "utterly personal", in that the "violence of the [[military junta|junta]] seems to be overshadowed by individual desire". She stated that the film masked "U.S. involvement in setting up dictatorships, teaching torture techniques, and underwriting state violence".<ref name="Kaminsky2008">{{cite book|last=Kaminsky|first=Amy K.|title=Argentina: Stories for a Nation|url=https://archive.org/details/argentinastories0000kami|url-access=registration|year=2008|publisher=University of Minnesota Press|isbn=978-0-8166-4948-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/argentinastories0000kami/page/186 186]}}</ref>