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,

Only a select number of movie theaters are able to show "Sinners" as director Ryan Coogler intended. Three are in California, with commemorative filmstrips.

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.