Sinners (2025)

I've never seen Creed or any of its sequels so I mainly know Ryan Coogler from Black Panther and its follow-up. Marvel films, with their cookie-cutter plots, bland film style and awkwardly forced politics are never a way to judge a director. In fact, if anything, all the major franchises have been pretty much career killers for directors. They either have the film taken out of their hands and something completely different presented - for which they get the blame - or the bland, no-risk process washes out whatever creativity they ever had. Many directors have actors they like to work with and, in this case, it's Michael B. Jordan. He played Killmonger in the first Black Panther , becoming one of the few memorable villains of the franchise, and is himself a creative force in acting, music and activism. It's good to have someone like Jordan to lean on when trying to break away from what I am sure feels like an assembly line style of f...