Sicario

 Sicario is a dirty movie. And not in a good way. It's the kind of movie that makes you want to do a shower after it's over. It's like Se7en in that way. Bad things happen, no one can change that. I'm serious, if you have a very weak constitution you'll not take this film easy.

 Sicario is an example of craft over story (the best way possible though), it's drug-bust story with revenge elements to it that we all have seen before, but it's a good story but that's not my point. You ever had an uncle that was so cool to take you to a camp and told you stories there, and he had a way of telling stories so great that you begged for him to say the same stories over and over. That's Sicario in a nutshell. The story telling over weights the story. Like Memento. Memento has a "decent" story but the narrative it's what makes the film fantastic. Sicario has more going for than Memento. Sicario has one of the best scores of the year (composed by Jóhann Jóhannsson who also composed the score for The Theory of Everything), Roger Deakins  does wonders making Mexic look like a living hell and nighttime look like nighttime, Emily Blunt (in the best role of her career so far) proves that she really deserves more Oscar push, and Benicio del Toro gives maybe one of his best performances yet and, for sure, having one of his best character arcs yet. The only weak point of the movie, for me, was a subplot *SPOILERS* which seamed to take inspiration off Heat, which I felt was a bit unnecessary.

 I see myself changing the rating on a second watch but for now I would grade the film a bit less then some would expect. Still this is an astonishingly well made film, one that I really was looking forward, that sure would deserve a lot of award buzz this year. A-