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We Need to Talk About the Irish-Dancing Vampires in Sinners
An earnest act of imagination that’s also unapologetically goofy, it’s not the kind of scene you can write if you’re afraid of eye rolls.
The vampire epic is Ryan Coogler’s “one for me” after nearly a decade in the Marvel trenches, and it has the feel of a filmmaker following his muse, whether that means three separate depictions of or references to cunnilingus, a moment where Hailee Steinfeld gives Michael B. Jordan the full Disobedience, or the scene that even at this early date is being hailed as Sinners ’s standout sequence. Thus, when secret protagonist Sammie (Miles Caton) takes the stage at the film’s Depression-era juke joint, the power of his blues is enough to summon a spiritual lineage of Black music — West African dancers, hip-hop DJs, a Jimi Hendrix look-alike wailing on the guitar. So instead, they spend much of the film hanging around outside, feeding on anyone unlucky enough to wander into their path and trying to lure innocents with dulcet folk tunes, which has the knock-on effect of making Sinners by far the best movie of the 2020s to feature characters singing “Wild Mountain Thyme.”
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