Review: Sinners (2025)
Sinners is a tour de force from Ryan Coogler, the director of Creed and Black Panther. The movie takes the viewers on a magical mystery tour of music and horror that spans 24 hours in Clarksdale, Mississippi during the early 1930s. The film is so vast and ambitious in its scope that it's almost impossible to fully wrap one's arms around it in a single viewing. Against the setting is the segregated Deep South at a time when racial tensions were high, we meet two brothers (twins, both played by Michael B. Jordan) who have taken their future in their own hands and tried to forge a path for themselves outside of the law. But that's just part of this tale, which is also about the blues and the rich history of American folklore and occult beliefs that have been bleeding into one another for hundreds of years. African traditions meld with those of Ireland, with Native American culture adding seasoning, too. At the center of the story is a burgeoning bluesman (Miles Caton), th...
