With Sinners, Ryan Coogler is going for broke. Eschewing all the rules while playing with the kind of full deck only afforded by working with a major Hollywood studio'”an above-the-marquee star, IMAX cameras, a two-and-a-half-hour runtime'”Coogler refuses to throw away the shot he earned via the combined box office clout of Creed (2015) and his two Black Panther movies (2018, 2022), constructing a film of bold visual, narrative, and political ambition. The fact that Sinners has turned into a bona fide hit, the kind that people can't stop talking about, confirms his ambitions, but they just as easily ... Read More