Any film about legacy and oppression that shapeshifts, about art as rebellion, will always be universal.

Full Review | Jul 29, 2025

Sinners is loaded — thematically, visually, sonically. It’s a horror film, a Southern-fried period drama, a cultural allegory, and a supernatural showdown wrapped in blues-soaked atmosphere. Ryan Coogler stirs it all with purpose.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 27, 2025

Packed full of rich cinematography, an intricate backstory, affable characters, and enough tension to have audiences on the edge of their cinema seats, Sinners is one of the best horror films of the year, but one of the best films full stop.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 23, 2025

There’s so much thematic material to unpack here, but the film’s primary strength is in its exploration of music as a healer, as a seducer, as a uniter, and as a generational bridge.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 23, 2025

While it draws upon influences from horror movies from the past, it still manages to shine uniquely by incorporating history, music, and the Black Southern Gothic aesthetic.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5 | Jul 22, 2025

It blends Black Prohibition-era gangsters, the rural South, roadhouse blues as an expression of Black culture, sex, spiritualism, immigrants, the Klan, vampires and more in a way that makes it hard to slap any genre label on it.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 22, 2025

Is it perfect? No. Some subplots (like those Native American vampire hunters) feel undercooked... Sinners movie delivers one of the most original, soulful horror experiences of the year.

Full Review | Original Score: 8.5/10 | Jul 19, 2025

While sometimes chaotic in its execution, with “Sinners,” Coogler has succeeded in sneaking profound ideas into a B-movie spectacular.

Full Review | Jul 18, 2025

This did such a great job at getting me invested in these characters and this setting long before the vampires show up.

Full Review | Jul 18, 2025

Like many of the things invoked in “Sinners”, the ideas are more portentous than their follow-throughs.

Full Review | Jul 17, 2025

This film is a thrilling journey packed with action, drama, and music, showcasing Coogler’s remarkable touch for crafting a layered story and infusing it with just the right dose of genre elements.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 17, 2025

Coogler suggests, art—whether music or movies—can gives us, however briefly, however compromised, a vision of a better world.

Full Review | Jul 17, 2025

Difficult to imagine a movie I’ll love more, this year.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 15, 2025

“Sinners” is a blusey, horny, bloody affair that is bursting with ideas and powered by invigorating blues and infectious score. It is a tale of two films, connected by one of the most transcendent scenes of the decade.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 15, 2025

Ryan Coogler is showing his mastery of his craft with Sinners. He’s knocking on our collective doors, and we should absolutely welcome him in.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 15, 2025

Sinners presents a politically poignant multiethnic melting pot that beautifully showcases how every person is an entire universe... a truly high octane ride with a score and soundtrack that elevates every facet of the film to another level.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 14, 2025

It’s weighty, smart, and downright creepy, and ultimately it gives you what the characters assembled at the juke joint are in search of: a good time.

Full Review | Jul 14, 2025

Speaks to experiences I can never fully comprehend, but he tells the story in such a way that anyone can relate. Its heartfelt, suspenseful, horny, gentle, funny, terrifying, and riveting — all often within the span of seconds.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 12, 2025

It's a vampire flick that spends a hour basically hiding and obscuring that fact... This film has interesting dramatic things happening, but those things don't really have anything to do with its supernatural premise.

Full Review | Jul 12, 2025

Coogler has composed a film that’s a symphony of joy and pain, of elegance and grindhouse, and of precision and chaos.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 11, 2025