What 'Sinners' Understands About the Price of Black Liberation

Coogler’s latest is a supernatural showdown with real-world stakes. It’s not just who survives the night—it’s who owns the morning after.

Ryan Coogler’s Sinners is a horror film, sure—but more than that, it’s a fable. The kind told on porches after dark. The kind you half-forget until it’s too late. It’s set in the 1930’s Delta, but it could be Detroit, it could be New Orleans, it could be the block you grew up on. The terrain is gothic, but the moral? Devastatingly modern. This is a movi…