Sinners
believe the hype
did you guys know this is the 2nd movie I’ve seen in an imax theater? the first…was g-force. the guinea pig spy movie. yup, my imax resume is this…and g-force. which feels genuinely sacrilegious to bring up that movie and this movie in the same sentence, but I did.
Sinners was an absolute masterpiece. an intense, gorgeous, spiritual, sexy, action-packed film that gets your blood pumping like nothing else. I left the theater with the same slack-jawed, heart-racing, full-body electric shock feeling as I did with the end of Whiplash, Dune 2, Do The Right Thing, Fury Road, Challengers, the leap of faith in Spider-Verse…it’s incredible is what I’m getting at. genuinely movie magic, especially during the musical moments. see it in IMAX if at all possible, see it in theaters like the world depends on it.
A part of me really wants to wax on poetically about how good this was, but the film really speaks for itself. Just a few brief thoughts from me:
Coogler has been on a tear for years, and if this didn’t prove it to you, you are lost. Deserves to be in the same conversation as Nolan, Eggers, Gerwig, Villeneuve, Anderson, and Baker as one of the top names in film today.
I genuinely think Ludwig is the next John Williams. no two composers have moved me as much as them. Oppenheimer, the Mandalorian, tenet, sinners, creed, just an outstanding resume with such variety.
entire cast is fantastic, but I gotta give flowers to Miles Caton. to debut in a movie with this stacked of a cast, as the lead, and not just hold his own, but be one of the highlights? so impressive. he’s gonna be huge, I feel it.
go watch it.