Two films dominate the year-ender lists for Hollywood for 2025, and they are likely to go toe-to-toe at the Oscars too. One is Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, a brilliant ode to the power of love and the endurance of the revolutionary spirit. The other is the equally brilliant Sinners, Ryan Coolger’s mesh of supernatural horror, a critique of racism and the roots of blues music.
Sinners kicked off the Oscar race early, coming out in April itself. The movie remains in conversation and is likely to be discussed and revisited long after the Oscars have come and gone.
Coogler made his directorial debut in 2013, with the indie drama Fruitvale Station, based on the real-life killing of a young Black man by a police officer. Coogler’s subsequent works – the Rocky franchise entry Creed and two Black Panther movies – brought to mainstream Hollywood racial injustice and Black traditions of community, music and fashion.
Coogler has cast the actor Michael B Jordan in all his films. In Sinners, Jordan plays identical twins Elijah “Smoke” and Elias “Stack”, whose ambition to run a dance club runs into human bigotry and demonic forces.
Sinners takes place in 1932 in the American South. Racial segregation laws have loosened enough to allow the twins to buy a barn from a white...
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