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The Women at the Heart of of Sinners’s Success
Ryan Coogler’s vampiric bloodbath is full of remarkable performances, but the female characters really get to bare their teeth.
While Coogler’s Black Panther films boast big casts with myriad female characters and Creed and Fruitvale station have strong domestic partnerships at their core, we’ve yet to see him pull off a balancing act quite like he does in Sinners — four relationships take center stage amid the supernatural action and social commentary. Every major female character becomes the deciding force in every relationship in the film: Mary sealing Stack’s fate, Smoke choosing to follow Annie into death, Pearline emboldening Sammie’s desire to fight for his family, and Grace taking out her husband in a literal blaze of glory. Sinners ’s press tour has reminded everyone how much fun someone talking about a movie can be, whether it’s Steinfeld and Jordan’s flirty banter, Mosaku’s affection for her character, or Jayme Lawson’s hope that she’s making her ancestors proud.
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