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<em>Sicario: Day of the Soldado </em>Is Dead Behind the Eyes

Stefano Sollima’s sequel to the 2015 border thriller retains Josh Brolin and Benicio del Toro, but sheds the moral complexity.
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is a nightmare. There’s bloody violence, growled dialogue, inky visuals—and in this world Mexican drug cartels, Somali pirate kings, and ISIS have essentially combined forces to smuggle suicide bombers into the U.S. The film, a sequel to Denis Villeneuve’s 2015 border thriller , uses this ugly scenario as a flimsy excuse for a bunch of grim set-pieces, where CIA agent Matt Graver (Josh Brolin) and his steely assassin partner Alejandro Gillick (Benicio del

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