MUSIC—San Francisco’s Deafheaven have reinvented black metal tropes to wield a shoegaze-metal hybrid that incorporates spacious, expansive, and—dare we say—beautiful sounds, while remaining as claustrophobic and annihilative as the best charred-to-the-bone metal out there. NED LANNAMANN
w/Tribulation; Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell, 8:30 pm, $16-18
FILM—So far, Denis Villeneuve’s Sicario is the best movie of 2015—by so wide of a margin that it’s not even funny. Phenomenally acted by Emily Blunt and Benicio Del Toro, and gorgeously shot by Roger Deakins, the drug thriller is brutal, horrifying, exhilarating—and mandatory viewing on the big screen. ERIK HENRIKSEN
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