Sinners
“Divine and magical” are probably the words I’d use for the kind of filmmaking presented in Sinners— the type of feeling you get when you've read a great book, seen a beautiful painting, or listened to an all-timer album. Basically a masterfully staged, engrossing buildup to one of the craziest, wildly imaginative third acts I've ever seen. Somewhere between folklore, history, art, and genre. A music-driven genre mash-up that reworks age-old vampire tropes into a fresh, powerful, thoughtful, and deliciously hot-blooded period saga rooted in the specifics of Black history. Super bold and uninhibited in ways that yield both a major crowd-pleasing horror-action rager, but also a legitimate reckoning with the politics and history presented. The way Coogler delivers on all the beats you would expect from a vampire flick but in his own original way while ALSO never losing sight of the true soul of this story and the characters we’ve come to know and love is truly nothing short of a fucking miracle. There's one delightfully trippy, time-altering sequence where the camera floats in a single take that I’m sure everyone has already heard of— pure fucking magic! It feels like the first film in a while that has been THIS unanimously adored, especially by film twt— just a total home run. It’s warming my heart to see people so excited about different film formats and going to the cinema (also proves that shooting on film is way superior to digital). I truly can’t remember the last time something inspired me as much as sinners. Goat shit. Netflix saying theaters are outdated while Sinners and the re-release of ROTS are making box office history and breaking records puts a huge fucking smile on my face.