Denis Villeneuve continues to impress and showcases his strength as a filmmaker impressively with Sicario. This film is incredibly tense and it never relents until the final credits roll.

| Aug 2, 2024

Seriously, the movie didn't deserve to be this good. On top of all this, Michael B. Jordan is a star, and Sylvester Stallone turns his most iconic character of Rocky Balboa into one of the best supporting performances of the year.

| Aug 2, 2024

This is a film built on a foundation soaked in nitroglycerin; every situation seems pitched on the verge of combustion.

| Aug 19, 2023

Taylor Sheridan has written some of the most underappreciated crime movies of the 21st Century, a run that kicked off with this film.

| Oct 10, 2022

“Sicario” is a searing and provocative thriller – visceral and unflinching in its depiction of a situation with no easy answer.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 25, 2022

The film’s message is troubling because it is often true: the longer we cling to our morals, the more susceptible we are to becoming sheep in a land of wolves.

| Original Score: 8/10 | May 17, 2022

Sicario offers nothing completely new within the genre (...) but it is still a heart-racing ride brilliantly casted (...) and brings a fresh take on a familiar story.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 9, 2021

One of the most brutal, effective thrillers in recent memory.

| Original Score: A- | Aug 10, 2021

A thriller wound so tight that you'll probably need a lie down and a sizeable drink afterwards.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 5, 2021

Rooting a film ... in personal revenge is one of the cheapest, laziest and most retrograde approaches possible.

| Feb 26, 2021

Isn't a feel good movie about winning the war on drugs. Instead it's a powerful look at a seemingly unwinnable battle and the toll it takes on its soldiers.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 3, 2021

Sicario looks to be introducing even wider audiences to Denis Villeneuve, but it's also a film that will leave them uneasy and unsettled.

| Jan 15, 2021

Sicario is paced so wonderfully and so real, you don't need to be a fan of the genre to like it.

| Jan 2, 2021

Emily Blunt's performance brings humanity to this prototypical expose of ulterior motives behind the drug wars happening across the U.S. border.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 16, 2020

At times, the movie alternates between gung-ho adventure, nail-biting suspense, and a revealing exposé of corruptions - all regularly at odds with a consistent vision.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 4, 2020

As Sicario is seen from Kate's point of view, we as the audience are dragged along for the tense, heart-pounding and edge of your seat ride.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 17, 2020

With this film Denis Villeneuve has his clear intentions when executing some action sequences that are somewhat tense, but he stays halfway when he raises the moral questions behind the fight against drug trafficking. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jun 26, 2020

Villenueve wrings the best out of every level of production, and never has it been so polished, so exciting, as in this masterful film.

| Apr 7, 2020

When everything is brought together, it is clear we've heard this tune before but this version is tuned to an incredible and impressive harmony.

| Feb 13, 2020

Del Toro is a fantastic actor who has been failed by his scripts and direction time and time again. Not so with Sicario.

| Jan 10, 2020