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Sicario

2015

Denis Villeneuve

Emily Blunt, Benicio del Toro, Josh Brolin, Victor Garber ...

6.9

36,073

Thriller. Action. Drama Story follows an officer from Tucson, Arizona who travels across the border to Mexico with a pair of mercenaries to track down a drug lord. A young female FBI agent joins a secret operation to take down a Mexican cartel boss, a job that ends up pushing her ethical and moral values to the limit.

	Media	Author	Review
		Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"A searing and superbly made drug cartel drama."
		Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"An extreme, brutal, complex and sometimes sickeningly violent story of its time, one of the best movies about the dominance of drugs in our culture since Steven Soderbergh’s 'Traffic' (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)"
		Fionnuala Halligan Screendaily	"Confronting the war on drugs in a way which is cinematic, but far from superficial, 'Sicario' is very dark, but it’s also exciting (...) A satisfyingly-complicated Heart of Darkness voyage"
		Scott Foundas Variety	"A blisteringly intense drug-trade thriller that combines expert action and suspense with another uneasy inquiry into the emotional consequences of violence."
		Lou Lumenick New York Post	"Emily Blunt gives an Oscar-worthy performance in ‘Sicario’. (...) it's incredibly suspenseful, loaded with well-designed action and full of twisty surprises. Brolin and del Toro are also terrific in the film"
		Jessica Kiang IndieWire	"Amazing to look at, amazing to listen to (...) 'Sicario' (...) is superlatively strong in every conceivable way except story."
		Stephanie Merry The Washington Post	"Is this a horror movie or an art-house morality tale? The reputation of director Denis Villeneuve (...) suggests that it’s the latter. But the distinction won’t make your nightmares any less hideous"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"[Villeneuve] has just taken control of a straight-ahead Hollywood genre movie, and managed it with great flair without any supercilious over-thinking — which is not to say that it isn’t smart. As an action thriller, it delivers. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"
		Colin Covert Minneapolis Star Tribune	"Combining relentless action with the story of a woman confronting a corrupted system, it hits with the staggering energy of a visceral kick in the guts (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)"
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Sicario is a setup for scalding action (...) Still, it's on Blunt's expressive face that Sicario writes its darkest poetry. Prepare to be haunted for a good long time (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)"

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