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With Sicario, Québécois director Denis Villeneuve demonstrates consummate skill combining a complex, action - packed narrative with highly nuanced issues about the war on drugs.

Tomorrow: Denis Villeneuve, the French - Canadian director who recently began working in English (Prisoners, Enemy), makes his Cannes Competition debut with Sicario, starring Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro, and Josh Brolin.

Working with actor - turned - screenwriter Taylor Sheridan, with Sicario the director has turned in his most unnervingly emotional cinematic effort yet.

Sicario: With Sicario, Denis Villeneuve finally stumbles after an impressive run of stellar films - as the movie suffers from an often incoherent storyline that's compounded by an absence of sympathetic characters.

Villeneuve is reuniting with his Sicario and Prisoners cinematographer Roger Deakins on the project.

With the one - two punch of Prisoners and Enemy, the Canadian filmmaker made a name for himself before launching into serious contender territory with Sicario.

His 2013 film Prisoners shook me up, and he was on many «best of» lists last year with Sicario.

I don't have a single complaint with Sicario.

The problem with Sicario is that it is too much of an infuriating mystery before it becomes anything else.

Not exact matches

At a party at Escobar's Hacienda Napoles, outside of Medellin, «Carlos is high on coke, and he gets into an argument with one of Pablo Escobar's sicarios, or hit men, and shoots and kills him,» Vigil told Business Insider.

The Huntsman: Winter's War stars Charlize Theron (Mad Max: Fury Road, Monster) as the evil Queen Ravenna, who betrays her good sister Freya (Emily Blunt: Sicario, Edge of Tomorrow) with an unforgivable act, freezing Freya's heart to love and unleashing in her an icy power she never knew she possessed.

But T'Challa's friend and confidante W'Kabi (Daniel Kaluuya: Get Out, Sicario) worries about Wakanda being overrun with refugees, who would bring big problems and discord with them, if they were to open their borders and let their wealth and capabilities be widely known.

Sicario starts and ends with Blunt's impassioned performance (and she's spectacular in her final scene), but it's Del Toro who is the real standout.

Sicario is a well written story, however the film does fall short in some scenes with slow moving plot points and a handful of unnecessary scenes.

Arrival is directed by Quebecois filmmaker Denis Villeneuve, of the films Incendies, Prisoners, Enemy and Sicario previously, currently working on the new Blade Runner sequel with Ryan Gosling.

It is definitely the summer of Brolin with the aforementioned projects and the arrival of Sicario 2, in a few months.

Heading up the technical noms, Emmanuel «Chivo» Lubezki is looking to make it three - in - a-row for Best Cinematography with The Revenant, though we would dearly love always - the - bridesmaid Roger Deakins to finally convert a nomination (this year's nod, for Sicario, is his thirteenth) into a win.

Add cinematographer Roger Deakins to the mix, who worked with Villeneuve on Prisoners and Sicario and earned two Oscar nominations for his trouble, and the prospect only becomes more exciting.

Filed Under: Movies, News, Scott Davis Tagged With: Benicio Del Toro, Cannes Film Festival, Denis Villeneuve, Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin, Sicario

From Prisoners to Enemy to Sicario and now Arrival, the Canadian - born director has championed thought - provoking humanist cinema with a genre tinge.

Josh Brolin has a charismatic approach to his off the record ways of doing business, but it's Benicio Del Toro portraying a calm and collected yet seemingly haunted older man with a wealth of knowledge of how things work around the border, that simply ends up snatching Sicario for his own throughout the final act.

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News, Trailers Tagged With: Benicio Del Toro, Denis Villeneuve, Emily Blunt, Jon Bernthal, Josh Brolin, Sicario, Victor Garber

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Denis Villeneuve, Emily Blunt, Jon Bernthal, Josh Brolin, Sicario, Victor Garber

Sicario, a fall release that addressed the war on drugs in both the United States and Mexico, led all films with five nominations including Best Picture and Best Director for Denis Villeneuve.

He continues to perform at a high level, and he's forged a partnership with Villeneuve over the course of three films now («Prisoners» and «Sicario» being the others) that makes for one of the great visual signatures in modern cinema.

Oscar Podcast # 25: The Danish Girl, Joy and Sicario with special guest Nathaniel Rogers from The Film Experience

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Benicio Del Toro, Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin, Sicario

We start off with Best Picture predictions talking about Carol, Joy, Bridge of Spies and Sicario from Denis Villenueve.

«Sicario» is a cynical masterpiece filled with endless suspense, masterful directing, and excellent performances.

«Sicario,» justifiably, has been rewarded with three Academy Award nominations — though, sadly, Benicio del Toro's acting was overlooked.

Composer Jóhann Jóhannsson was feted with Best Original Score for his starkly haunting work in «Sicario.»

From Black Mirror to Sicario, there's a quiet watchfulness to the London - born actor that makes him a riveting presence, and suggests a man with an interior life that keeps him working overtime.

It's certainly true that Sheridan is a player with Hell or High Water, especially after scoring raves for his Sicario script in 2015.

«Black Panther» stars Chadwick Boseman («Captain America: Civil War,» «Get on Up»), Michael B. Jordan («Creed,» «Fruitvale Station»), Academy Award ® winner Lupita Nyong» o («Star Wars: The Force Awakens,» «12 Years a Slave»), Danai Gurira («The Walking Dead,» upcoming «All Eyez on Me»), Martin Freeman («Hobbit» trilogy, «Sherlock»), Daniel Kaluuya (upcoming «Get Out,» «Sicario»), with Academy Award ® nominee Angela Bassett («American Horror Story,» «London Has Fallen»), with Academy Award ® winner Forest Whitaker («Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,» Lee Daniels» «The Butler»), and Andy Serkis («Avengers: Age of Ultron,» «Star Wars: The Force Awakens»).

It's better than Sicario and right up there with Hell or High Water as a contemporary thriller that feels timeless.

There's been some buzz mounting for Sicario and the trend to nominate a mainstream comedy that started with The 40 - Year - Old Virgin a few years ago makes Trainwreck a good possibility, but I thing the top five are pretty bullet - proof right now.

«Enemy,» «Sicario» and «Arrival» director Denis Villeneuve has taken over directing duties from Ridley Scott, who produced the long - gestating sequel; Ryan Gosling leads «Blade Runner 2049,» with original star Harrison Ford onboard as well.

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.

Another common complaint circulated about Sicario at Cannes is that it demonizes Mexico, and that's likely to gain traction now, what with Donald Trump doing the same as a presidential candidate.

Lionsgate and Sony Pictures have released a brand new trailer for the upcoming sequel to 2015's action crime drama Sicario, now titled Sicario: Day of the Soldado, along with a batch of images courtesy of USA Today; check them out here...

Original «Sicario» writer Taylor Sheridan returns, with Stefano Sollima directing — the trailers have a nice Michael Mann / «Heat» vibe that suggests even more violence than the original.

Alan Murray, two - time Academy Award - winner nominated this year for Sicario, discusses using sound to tell the audience that things may not be quite right, how low - end can heighten tension, and his remarkable 40 year collaboration with Clint Eastwood.

Filed Under: Chris Haydon, Reviews Tagged With: Ben Foster, Chris Haydon, Chris Pine, david mackenzie, Gil Birmingham, Hell or High Water, Jeff Bridges, reviews, Sicario, Taylor Sheridan

It's a perfect companion to this year's Sicario, but this takes us closer to the heart of the issue with raw candid footage from the heat of the battlefield.

Those are practically the first words that aspiring photographer Chris Washington (Sicario's Daniel Kaluuya) speaks to his girlfriend Rose (Allison Williams), just before they drive off to white surburbia 2.0 for a weekend meet and greet with her parents, the epitome of white privilege.

Hear the teams behind Mad Max: Fury Road, The Revenant, and Sicario talk about the creation of the sound design for the films, their collaboration with the music department and re-recording mixers, and the challenges of managing the logistics and aesthetics of their films.

Eschewing the direct sequel route, and choosing instead to set a new story in the same world with Josh Brolin, Benicio Del Toro and a sprinkling of other characters returning, the follow - up to Sicario, known here as Sicario 2: Soldado, is on its way.

(In Persian with subtitles) El Sicario: Room 164 (Unrated) Good cop / bad cop documentary featuring the shocking confessions of Chihuahua's former chief of police who admits to killing hundreds of people while moonlighting as a hit man for a Mexican drug cartel.

«Sicario»: With his 13th nomination, Roger Deakins crosses new aesthetic borders with Denis Villeneuve («Prisoners») for this intense cat - and - mouse thrilWith his 13th nomination, Roger Deakins crosses new aesthetic borders with Denis Villeneuve («Prisoners») for this intense cat - and - mouse thrilwith Denis Villeneuve («Prisoners») for this intense cat - and - mouse thriller.

The trailer for Sicario (Spanish for hitman) from director Denis Villeneuve (Enemy, Prisoners) is here and it's a tense two minutes of action and drama with Golden Globe winner Emily Blunt (Into the Woods, The Young Victoria) and Oscar winner Benicio Del Toro (Traffic, 21 Grams) fighting the war on drugs through a backdoor loophole that allows for a clandestine mission to apprehend a Mexican drug lord.