Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan deliver a vampire movie for the ages.

| Apr 25, 2025

Do all the narrative and thematic threads come together? No. Sinners almost works better in parts than as a whole. But it’s always enthralling, as if you too is trapped in a spell, as if you’ve struck a bargain with the devil.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 22, 2025

If you pick apart the story threads, Sinners is a little messy, but Coogler’s assurance and vision holds everything together. It looks phenomenal: shot on 70mm film, the frame throbs with sultry, come-hither reds and golds.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 21, 2025

It’s both a wildly ambitious meditation on American history and a rip-roaring good time.

| Apr 21, 2025

In combining the old genre tropes with a potent message — the eternal recipe for a great horror film — the ever-entertaining director again shows he has something forceful to say, be it with boxers, superheroes or blood-suckin’ vampires.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 21, 2025

It’s fun and rowdy and suitably lurid.

| Apr 21, 2025

There is a scene smack dab in the middle of Sinners where I felt my soul elevate to a new plane of existence.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 20, 2025

The absurdities which result are intermittently entertaining, but the film’s first half has put us on the road to something much more involving, and I spent the rest of it wondering what might have been.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 19, 2025

It’s not just that Coogler dares to do something different with Sinners -- it’s that he lets it all wrestle, sweat, and bleed together.

| Apr 18, 2025

If Sinners is messy, it’s sometimes pretty glorious, too. Coogler is swinging wide and far beyond the boundaries of franchise fare.

| Apr 18, 2025

Sinners had me cheering for every thrill and spill, all while mulling the deeper concerns threaded through it.

| Apr 18, 2025

With Sinners, the director is playing a different game. He’s forcing the broad mainstream audience he’s cultivated to meet him fully on his own eccentric terms. That the results are imperfect doesn’t matter because they’re so often exhilarating.

| Apr 18, 2025

Sinners is so atmospheric, richly textured and gorgeous to watch that it's almost a disappointment when it veers into supernatural territory. But if the horror beats prove a touch derivative, Coogler builds suspense with shivery assurance.

| Apr 18, 2025

Michael B Jordan is arresting in this exhilarating, blood-soaked vampire flick, which combines the supernatural with the political.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 18, 2025

It is a phantasm of Black Southern delights.

| Apr 18, 2025

An awe-inspiring ode to what music means to communities and cultures

| Apr 18, 2025

Michael B. Jordan and Ryan Coogler team for their best and most daring work yet, a game-changing vampire-gangster-western-musical that’s divisive, dangerous and primed to explode. it’s like nothing you’ve ever seen and the best movie of this young year

| Apr 18, 2025

Coogler has delivered one of the best blockbusters of the year, and that it has a heart and brain behind all the blood-drenched thrills just makes it that much more satisfying. Open wide, and get ready to take a big old bite out of “Sinners.”

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 18, 2025

The great sin of “Sinners” is that, for all the audacity of its conception, it finally collapses into the familiar.

| Apr 18, 2025

Genres collide as fangs find necks. Jim Crow Mississippi is filled with Klan robes and cotton fields, but is also just one part of a heady fable of past and future.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 17, 2025