Sinners
It's crazy how two of my favourite films from this year are both vampire films, a subgenre that I didn't particularly care for but both Nosferatu and Sinners breathes a new life into this classic horror monsters in different ways.
Sinners uses it's western setting to create a rich and interesting world, and threads music into it's vampiric lore perfectly. I love the way music is used to amplify cultures, especially how it uses blues and folk music both in tandem and against one another.
Michael B Jordan seriously feels like he is actually playing two different characters, and not in a gimmick way whatsoever. It feels like you could separate these two charscters and put them into separate films and you wouldn't even notice much of a connection in his performance of the two. Both Smoke and Stack have such life in their performances. That goes for every character here though, they all feel like they lived a full life and exist outside the screen that you see them on.
Everyone is talking about one particular sequence and honestly I can't blame them, I was already loving Sinners but once that scene happened I was completely drawn in. I honestly don't think there are many directors that could make the sequence work the way Ryan Coogler does and it's definitely one that I'll be thinking about for a while.
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