Ryan Coogler, the writer-director of the new film Sinners, has made five movies in his 12-year career, all of them well-received hits. Fruitvale Station is a wrenching true-crime drama, while the film Creed dynamically reimagines the Rocky franchise. He is perhaps best-known, however, for Black Panther and its sequel, building a world that became a cultural phenomenon and a high-water mark for Marvel. But Sinners is Coogler's first entirely original work'a strange, heady piece of horror set in the Jim Crow Deep South over the course of a single evening. A pair of identical twins (both played by Michael B. Jordan) have returned home after years spent fighting in the German trenches and bootlegging in Chicago, only to be pitted against a coven of vampires. The film reimagines the time period as something seductively magical: when the blues that emerged from the Mississippi Delta was so culturally potent that it could even attract the attention of the undead. Some theatergoers may be...
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