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Twin brothers return to hometown to start fresh, but face a greater evil.
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Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.
"Sinners is a film by director Ryan Coogler (Creed, Black Panther), in another collaboration with Michael B. Jordan, this time in a story set in the 1930s during the height of racial segregation, the Great Depression, and the prohibition era in the United States. The plot follows two twin brothers (both played by Jordan) who, after spending time in Chicago serving Al Capone, decide to return to their hometown in the southern United States, where they want to start a business and find their way to success. However, they are confronted with past traumas, complex racial dynamics, and a supernatural evil greater than they have ever known. Sinners redefines vampirism as a metaphor for racial hatred and the predatory nature of capitalism to critique, through horror, its concept of freedom. One of the best films in Coogler's filmography, it engages with the conventions not only of horror but also of gangster cinema, and one of the great films in the recent canon of racial horror."