{"id":6403,"date":"2026-04-10T00:40:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T22:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/?p=6403"},"modified":"2026-04-10T00:43:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T22:43:49","slug":"sicario-by-denis-villeneuve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/2026\/04\/10\/sicario-by-denis-villeneuve\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Sicario<\/em> by Denis Villeneuve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2705 Deakins\u2019s cinematography and especially his phenomenal lighting techniques should\u2019ve earned him here his about 6th Academy Award, not just nominations.<\/p>\n<p>\u2705 J\u00f3hannsson\u2019s music is fiercely intense, and so is the sound design.<\/p>\n<p>\u2705 Superb script, direction, and cut\/pacing keep you perpetually glued to the edge of the seat.<\/p>\n<p>Acting is outstanding, and the split between main character and protagonist (Blunt\/del Toro) establishes and carries the theme perfectly.<\/p>\n<div class=\"spacer20\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ruler\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"epigraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sicario_(2015_film)\" target=\"somethingUnique\"><em>Sicario<\/em><\/a> by Denis Villeneuve, 2015.<br \/>\nWatched at the Bambi theater on April 7, 2026, in its original language.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/2026\/04\/10\/sicario-by-denis-villeneuve\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Sicario by Denis Villeneuve\"><p>\ud83c\udfac Incredibly intense.<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-archive","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6403"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6409,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6403\/revisions\/6409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}