Emily Blunt plays an FBI Agent recruited to assist taking down a Mexican Cartel kingpin in
Sicario also starring Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin, Victor Garber, Jon Bernthal, and Daniel Kaluuya.
Written by first - time screenwriter Taylor Sheridan and shot by Roger Deakins,
Sicario also features the likes of Josh Brolin, Benicio Del Toro and Jon Bernthal.
Sicario also boasts an incredible score that almost feels designed to make viewers feel uncomfortable, and disgustingly dirty in need of a shower after the credits roll.
Not exact matches
But for all its chilling tension and horrific imagery,
Sicario is
also a beautiful movie.
It's always a treasure when a filmmaker and score composer collaborate on a number of projects, and the latest team up between director Denis Villeneuve and Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson has been delivering stunning result after stunning result (
also see:
Sicario).
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ALSO: Watch the trailer for
Sicario In Mexico,
SICARIO means hitman.
Thunder Road's Basil Iwanyk («
Sicario»), Kamala Films» Marissa McMahon, and Charlize Theron («Atomic Blonde») under her Denver & Delilah Productions banner are producing alongside Matthew George's («Wind River») Acacia Entertainment and Savvy Media Holdings, which is
also financing.
SF: And I think you could
also add Emily Blunt in
Sicario, where she is literally the only woman in a film totally dominated by men, but it's all through her eyes.
Besides, he adds,
Sicario may be a thriller, but it's
also a film that deals with an ongoing issue that can't be summed up in a few climactic soliloquies.
Also well received is Denis Villeneuve's timely
Sicario, which garnered 8 nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Supporting Actor (Benicio del Toro), Original Screenplay, Cinematography, Film Editing, Original Score, and Sound Design.
Finally, «
Also from Lionsgate» repeats the disc - opening trailers for
Sicario, Wild Card, John Wick, Zero Tolerance, Extraction and American Ultra.
We do know that Freeheld «s distributor Lionsgate can be an excellent Oscar player (see Crash) but they
also have
Sicario (and a potential Best Actress push for Emily Blunt), Genius (a push for Nicole Kidman, likely in Supporting) and Miss You Already, which could net Drew Barrymore her first Oscar nomination.
Denis Villeneuve, who
also has a drug - war movie (
Sicario) opening today, pumps iron.
His first film,
Sicario, was one of the top ten films of last year, due in large part to his brilliant script (and
also to everyone else involved with the movie, like director Dennis Villeneuve and cinematographer Roger Deakins).
Emily Blunt thriller «
Sicario» is
also opening wide this weekend alongside Julianne Moore's LGBT drama «Freeheld»
I had the chance to speak with Villeneuve about the impressions he had on his first read of the screenplay (Sons of Anarchy actor and first - time scribe Taylor Sheridan is
also seeing his second screenplay Comancheria being directed by another noteworthy auteur in David MacKenzie with Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine and Ben Foster on the scorecard) and I got a little insight on what he was looking for in
Sicario's score (here he reteams with his Jóhann Jóhannsson who scored Prisoners).
Sicario is Denis Villeneuve's latest movie in which explores not only the world of Mexican Drug Cartels, but
also the American law enforcement agencies that battles them on a daily basis.
There's
also some movies you might not have considered, like HBO's Fahrenheit 451 and
Sicario sequel Soldado, not to mention the far away releases you've definitely forgotten about, AKA December's Mary Poppins Returns and Aquaman.
Similarly, those who binged Marvel's Jessica Jones
also reveled in the kick ass nature of Katniss» quest for liberation as well as the pursuit of justice by FBI Agent Kate Macer in
Sicario.
Written and directed by Taylor Sheridan (Wind River, Hell or High Water,
Sicario), the show
also stars Wes Bentley, Kelly Reilly, Luke Grimes, Gil Birmingham and Cole Hauser.
Del Toro is going to be starring in the sequel to his hit cartel film
Sicario which
also starred Emily Blunt and Josh Brolin.
He's
also signaled his (ahem) arrival for people who somehow missed his previous films,
Sicario, Prisoners, Enemy, and Incendies.
I realize that doesn't make a lot of sense but I'm trying to describe what the main character of
Sicario is feeling only in her case that feeling of being on unfamiliar roadways
also involves decomposing and dismembered bodies.
Thus,
Sicario can be relentlessly cynical, but it's
also mesmerizing, and exhilarating.
As mentioned there will
also be deals on hit movies and TV shows such as The Martian, Straight Outta Compton,
Sicario, Better Call Saul and many more.
The trailer features imagery and settings that feel calculated to remind players not only of the earlier Ghost Recon games, but
also of popular recent films and TV series like
Sicario and Narcos which have made the intricacies and mythos of the international drug trade a popular topic for dark contemporary fiction.