'Sicario' With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey
The Rewatchables crew kicks off CR Month with a live, energetic rewatch of Sicario (2015), dissecting Denis Villeneuve’s gritty crime thriller as a morally complex, visually stunning war film disguised as a procedural. Chris Ryan, the episode’s passionate advocate, argues it’s a modern
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