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CINEMA

SINNERS

Blood brothers

★★★☆

► RELEASED OUT NOW! 15 | 138 minutes

► Director Ryan Coogler

► Cast Michael B Jordan, Hailee Steinfeld, Jack O’Connell, Delroy Lindo, Wunmi Mosaku

The dream team of director Ryan Coogler and star Michael B Jordan have already gone on a wild journey, from gut-punch indie Fruitvale Station to stirring sports drama Creed to superheroes-with-substance blockbuster Black Panther. And yet Sinners, a vampire movie set in the Jim Crow-era American South of 1932, still feels like a jack-knife left turn.

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