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El Sicario: Room 164
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  • Summary: A Juarez hit man speaks: he has killed hundreds of people, is an expert in torture and kidnapping, and for many years was a commander of the state police in Chihuahua. He even received some training from the FBI. He has lived in Juárez and has moved freely throughout Mexico and the US. At the moment, there is a contract on his life of $250,000 and he lives as a fugitive, though he is still free and has never been charged with a crime in any country. The film takes place in a motel room on the US / Mexico border. The sicario is highly intelligent, very articulate and all too believable. The film stems from Charles Bowden’s essay The Sicario published in 2009 in Harper’s Magazine. (Doc & Film International)… Expand

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  1. Slant Magazine
    Reviewed by: Jesse Cataldo
    Dec 21, 2011
    88
    A lot of evil is laid on the table in El Sicario, and the film makes a big, if exquisitely subtle show, of theorizing that there's no way to explain how it got there.
  2. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Alison Willmore
    Dec 29, 2011
    83
    El Sicario: Room 164 is an almost laughably simple, aggressively drab-looking film, but it packs a wallop.
  3. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: Keith Uhlich
    Dec 21, 2011
    80
    Despite his repentance, you sense that this lost soul will be confessing his sins for all eternity.

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  1. helohe
    10
    A very interesting documentary. All of the film taking place in one room (except for some landscape shots). Only one narrator speaking about his life and his work as a hitman, torturer,.. for the drug cartel.… Expand
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