Warning: SPOILERS for Sinners are ahead! Not many movies on the 2025 movie release schedule felt as much like a cultural event as Ryan Coogler's Sinners. I was already pumped for this new horror movie,

The film represents a departure for the “Black Panther” director, and a creative risk; it grapples with ideas about music, race, family, religion—and vampires.

For more than a decade, Coogler has been Hollywood's quiet revolutionary - symbolizing, for the Black community, a figure akin to our very own Christopher Nolan. From chronicling the final hours of Oscar Grant's life in "Fruitvale Station,