In the Dark Reviews

Ryan Coogler has always been a solidly dependable filmmaker, but "Sinners" - his fifth and latest feature film, as both writer and director - is more than just a very good film, on the same reliably well-made level as 2015's "Creed," 2018's "Black Panther" and 2022's "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever."

"Sinners" is the best film Coogler has made. It's easily the best film of this year to date, and I'd argue it's already earned a place of note among the more significant films of the first quarter of the 21st century.

With "Sinners," Coogler has finally fused the real-life historic urgency of his...