Film: Sinners
Cast: Miles Caton, Saul Williams, Andrene Ward-Hammond, Michael B Jordan
Director/Writer: Ryan Coogler
Rating: 3.5/5
Runtime: 137 min

Writer/director Ryan Coogler’s ‘Sinners’ is a well crafted vampire movie. It has a rich story powered by a charismatic dual performance by Michael B. Jordan. It’s a gothic genre tale nuanced by ancestral inheritance. It is ambitious in its scope and the gritty period narrative is daringly different. Coogler’s attempt to translate big ideas into a movie that is appealing to all, comes good.

It’s the 1930s in Mississippi. Sammie (Miles Caton), the son of a preacher, has the power to see between the past and future. One morning, covered in blood and wounds, Sammie stumbles into his father’s church, broken guitar in hand. Obviously, there’s some horror story waiting to be told. But at that point the narrative rewinds to the previous day.