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Sicario: Day of the Soldado wasn't quite the hit sequel Taylor Sheridan was hoping for. But amid the script and pacing ...
Police believe the 15-year-old arrested for the attempted murder of Senator Miguel Uribe was a hitman working for money.
Taylor Sheridan's 2015 masterpiece Sicario shines, but its sequel, Day of the Soldado, earns higher praise for realistic ...
This is FRESH AIR. The 2015 action thriller "Sicario," starring Emily Blunt as an FBI agent, delved into the moral ambiguities of the U.S. government's war with the Mexican drug trade. Blunt doesn ...
When the new thriller Sicario opened in US cinemas last month, it was met with near-unanimous acclaim. Across the border in Mexico, however, it has attracted at least one prominent critic.
Taylor Sheridan fought studio pressure to cast Emily Blunt as Sicario’s female lead, using “strong adjectives” to keep Kate ...
The teenager didn’t hesitate. Offered the chance to prove that he could be an assassin — a sicario — he seized it, he said. A chance at money, power and what he craved most, respect.
Nearly ten years after its theatrical debut, Sicario is having a moment in the Netflix Top 10. Normally most movies that could be described, however tangentially, as political thrillers risk a ...
While the first “Sicario” may have not been the most sympathetic portrait of Mexicans, its sequel feels like a piece of state-sanctioned propaganda, writes Monica Castillo. “Sicario ...
Sick as it sounds, “Sicario: Day of the Soldado” is the lucky beneficiary of every belligerent tweet, crying child and political point scored in the chaos of the current Mexico/U.S. border crisis.
Denis Villeneuve’s “Sicario” is a somewhat remarkable thriller, one where all of the movie’s biggest thrills are just disturbing symptoms of a morally compromised government. It’s ...