The sequel to the pensive 2015 hit trades intellect for gratuitous violence, to little effect. At first, it all goes according to plan: Graver’s well-equipped CIA team intercepts her bodyguards ...

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 surprising that a ...

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There’s an oppressive bleakness to the brutal action-thriller “Sicario: Day of the Soldado.” But with faces like Josh Brolin and Benicio del Toro, what are you going to do? Amid the dust cloud of ...

When the drug-cartel thriller Sicario appeared in 2015, there was some debate among critics as to whether Denis Villeneuve’s menacing and ambiguous film was exploiting the violence it so artfully ...

ROME — Italy’s Leone Film Group and Rai Cinema are linking up with Lionsgate on Mexico-set thriller “Soldado,” a follow-up of sorts to Denis Villeneuve’s “Sicario,” to be directed by Italian helmer ...

Lionsgate’s “Sicario: Day of the Soldado” is set to become the first U.S. indie title released in Saudi Arabia following the recent removal of the country’s religion-related ban on cinemas after 35 ...

Last year, we learned that Denis Villeneuve's beloved Sicario was being developed into a trilogy. Now, we finally get a taste of the second film in the series. This entry is being directed by Stefano ...

First it was drugs. “Sicario” captured that threat as few movies have, depicting the brutality with which cartels control the flow of illegal substances across the U.S.-Mexico border, and imagining a ...