Part of Shocktober and Music City Mondays
“You keep dancing with the devil, one day he’s gonna follow you home.”
Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers (Michael B. Jordan) return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back in Ryan Coogler’s genre-shifting blockbuster.
“A big-screen exultation — a passionate, effusive praise song about life and love, including the love of movies.” —Manohla Dargis, NYT Critic’s Pick, New York Times “Feels like a filmmaker liberated: Coogler’s first original screenplay since 2012’s FRUITVALE STATION, and one bursting with ideas in its bloody, anarchic reflection on a history of black culture and artistry (and its continual appropriation).” —Kambole Campbell, Little White Lies “Coogler doesn’t reinvent the vampire movie with SINNERS, but in a current era of American cinema where messages are force-fed, a thoughtful social satire which gives viewers time to dissect –– and never lets its loftier thematic aims get in the way of its junky thrills –– is a breath of fresh air. I can’t remember the last time I had this much fun, nor felt so reinvigorated by, a major studio genre movie.” —Alistair Ryder, Film Stage
