Sinners

This is a story told through its music, and it's so well done.

Sinners is a redemption movie, a revenge movie with elements of Blaxploitation, and certainly a red-blood-soaked horror movie&#59; it’s also deeply romantic and has the rhythms and audaciousness of some of our boldest musicals.

Somewhere in this artful and audacious 137-minute horror/thriller is an even more phenomenal 120-minute film.

Yes, Coogler fluffs the ending, but by then all the heavy lifting has been done.

Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan deliver a vampire movie for the ages.

Do all the narrative and thematic threads come together? No. Sinners almost works better in parts than as a whole. But it’s always enthralling, as if you too is trapped in a spell, as if you’ve struck a bargain with the devil.

The way this film incorporates music—conceptually, historically, narratively— into every single aspect of its creation, and makes it feel like the greatest and oldest power in humanity’s arsenal against subjugation, is truly monumental.

Sinners is about a lot more than juke joints and vampires. When the numbness of what you’ve just experienced these two-hours-plus wears off, you’ll spend a week thinking about every minute.

A wildly entertaining film that, while echoing many others, ends up unlike anything you've seen.

Ryan Coogler's most passionate and soulful film to date! A (rock) operatic, IMAX-sized tale about the intersection of faith, community, heritage, exploitation, and freedom. Coogler celebrates artists across every medium as tethers to cultural identity.