Review of Sicario (2015) by Larry M — 09 Aug 2016

Denis Villeneuve has a real hard on for moral turpitude. Sicario, like Prisoners before it, is tightly controlled, hard to watch whilst hard to take your eyes off. Working again with the cutting edge digital work of veteran DP Roger Deakins, it's unflinching gaze fixates on the terrible things men justify in fighting evil, and the film dives headlong into that murky moral quagmire with no comfortable resolution, and all of that ambiguity and uncertainty and darkness contained in another hypnotic collection of performances.

The film has two or three masterfully handled extended suspense sequences, alternately almost bleached out and cloaked in night, the interplay of light and dark and the queasy, interminable shadows the film forces us to peer into.