Sinners

Dir: Ryan Coogler, US, 2025, Drama/Horror.
Michael B. Jordan, Jack O'Connell, Hailee Steinfeld.
Winner of 4 Academy Awards including Best Actor, Screenplay, and Score.
“Sinners needs no more than a one-word review; Stunning. Magical also works. So does unforgettable. Sinners is one of the most entertaining surprises to arrive in theatres in a long time. Coogler's film is intellectually stimulating, with an open narrative and a rambling pleasure… The story takes audiences back to Mississippi, circa 1932. Slavery is made unconstitutional, but segregation remains the norm. For the notorious Smokestack twins, Elijah ‘Smoke’ and Elias ‘Stack’ freedom is a word without meaning.  The brothers, both World War I veterans, high-tailed it to Chicago leaving behind grieving lovers and their broken dreams but returned to their hometown as wealthy men with violent reputations… They purchase an abandoned millhouse and turn it into a backwoods juke joint… A lot happens in Sinners even before a lot happens, but when the music kicks in and the joint starts hopping, all hell breaks loose… Coogler has created a gothic horror musical epic, with encompassing detail, unearthly magic, and historic accuracy. A bombastic meditation on race, freedom, confinement and the magical, sinful, erotic release that can only come from music. Sinners is a movie to see again and again and again. And then, go see it with friends. And that’s all that needs to be said.” – Thom Ernst, Original Cin

Genre: Drama

Runtime: 137 min

Rating: 14A