Sinners
16 Oscar Nominations
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Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.
What critics thought
Ryan Coogler's vampire horror is nearly unanimously praised as his most ambitious and personal work — a genre film that uses the blues as both literal plot engine and spiritual spine. The main point of contention is structural: a significant number of critics felt the grounded, character-rich first half outshines the more conventional supernatural action of the later acts, while a lone dissent from the Wall Street Journal argued the film never fully coheres thematically, its imagination still tethered to Marvel-franchise habits. Ludwig Göransson's score drew almost universal admiration across the critical spectrum, even from skeptics.
“Mr. Coogler's imagination remains limited by the conventions of Marveldom.”
Zachary Barnes·The Wall Street Journal
“This isn't the first time that a Ludwig Göransson score has been inextricable from the texture of a Ryan Coogler movie, but Sinners opens with someone talking about a kind of music 'so pure it can pierce the veil between life and death, past and future' [...] and then proceeds to show us exactly what that sounds like.”
David Ehrlich·IndieWire
“swinging wide and far beyond the boundaries of franchise fare”
A.A. Dowd·Rolling Stone
“flavorful [...] with the score and the blues performances fusing together to intoxicating effect.”
David Rooney·The Hollywood Reporter
Genres
Action, Drama, Horror
Cast & Crew
DirectorRyan Coogler
StarringMichael B. Jordan, Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton, Jack O'Connell, Wunmi Mosaku
ComposerLudwig Göransson
Sinners
16 Oscar Nominations
Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.
What critics thought
Ryan Coogler's vampire horror is nearly unanimously praised as his most ambitious and personal work — a genre film that uses the blues as both literal plot engine and spiritual spine. The main point of contention is structural: a significant number of critics felt the grounded, character-rich first half outshines the more conventional supernatural action of the later acts, while a lone dissent from the Wall Street Journal argued the film never fully coheres thematically, its imagination still tethered to Marvel-franchise habits. Ludwig Göransson's score drew almost universal admiration across the critical spectrum, even from skeptics.
“Mr. Coogler's imagination remains limited by the conventions of Marveldom.”
Zachary Barnes·The Wall Street Journal
“This isn't the first time that a Ludwig Göransson score has been inextricable from the texture of a Ryan Coogler movie, but Sinners opens with someone talking about a kind of music 'so pure it can pierce the veil between life and death, past and future' [...] and then proceeds to show us exactly what that sounds like.”
David Ehrlich·IndieWire
“swinging wide and far beyond the boundaries of franchise fare”
A.A. Dowd·Rolling Stone
“flavorful [...] with the score and the blues performances fusing together to intoxicating effect.”
David Rooney·The Hollywood Reporter
Genres
Action, Drama, Horror
Cast & Crew
DirectorRyan Coogler
StarringMichael B. Jordan, Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton, Jack O'Connell, Wunmi Mosaku
ComposerLudwig Göransson
Rent/Purchase