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"Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners” is a big-screen exultation — a passionate, effusive praise song about life and love, including the love of movies. Set in Jim Crow Mississippi, it is a genre-defying, mind-bending fantasia overflowing with great performances, dancing vampires and a lot of ideas about love and history. Here, when a Black musician plays the blues at a juke joint, he isn’t just performing for jubilant men and women. He is also singing to the history that flows through them from generations of ancestors to others not yet born. Like Coogler, the musician is a kind of time traveler, blasting off into horizonless possibilities.
...“Sinners” is the fifth feature that Coogler has directed; on occasion, it can feel like his fifth, sixth and seventh all rolled into one. There’s pleasure in much of this excess, in seeing how Coogler takes his imaginative detours and the fluidity with which he draws from past, present, myth and speculative fiction, including in a masterpiece of a sequence in which men and women from across history — traditional dancers and B-boys among others — converge at the juke joint. There’s great horror in this world, in the fields haunted by slavers and in a mean little house where a Klansman’s white hood and robes sit on a bed belonging to a mean little man. Yet the joy here is louder, and it resounds in every whoop and thundering stomp.
...It’s at that same shack that a devil comes calling in the form of Remmick (Jack O’Connell), a smooth-talking Irish charmer who helps take the movie in a more familiar direction, as romance gives way to escalating violence. Remmick is a seductive villain but he and the trouble that he brings with him at times overwhelm the latter part of the movie, much of which takes place inside the juke joint, turning a space of liberation and pleasure into a veritable war zone. Coogler’s work remains effortless, with staging and shooting that are so tightly synchronized that everything else, love included, seems to melt away. You can scarcely catch your breath as demons and humans clash, as some souls are lost and others found."
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I've seen it twice on the big screen over the past two weeks. I think its the best movie of the year and may very well be a classic. There's a lot going on in it.
...“Sinners” is the fifth feature that Coogler has directed; on occasion, it can feel like his fifth, sixth and seventh all rolled into one. There’s pleasure in much of this excess, in seeing how Coogler takes his imaginative detours and the fluidity with which he draws from past, present, myth and speculative fiction, including in a masterpiece of a sequence in which men and women from across history — traditional dancers and B-boys among others — converge at the juke joint. There’s great horror in this world, in the fields haunted by slavers and in a mean little house where a Klansman’s white hood and robes sit on a bed belonging to a mean little man. Yet the joy here is louder, and it resounds in every whoop and thundering stomp.
...It’s at that same shack that a devil comes calling in the form of Remmick (Jack O’Connell), a smooth-talking Irish charmer who helps take the movie in a more familiar direction, as romance gives way to escalating violence. Remmick is a seductive villain but he and the trouble that he brings with him at times overwhelm the latter part of the movie, much of which takes place inside the juke joint, turning a space of liberation and pleasure into a veritable war zone. Coogler’s work remains effortless, with staging and shooting that are so tightly synchronized that everything else, love included, seems to melt away. You can scarcely catch your breath as demons and humans clash, as some souls are lost and others found."
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I've seen it twice on the big screen over the past two weeks. I think its the best movie of the year and may very well be a classic. There's a lot going on in it.
