'Sinners' (2025) Review: One of the Decades Best? Ryan Coogler has adapted a gut-wrenching real-life story in Fruitvale Station, revitalised a cinema icon with Creed, and brought extraordinary levels of consciousness to the Marvel Cinematic Universe with Black Panther. With Sinners he tells a story that’s his very own, and to do so, he’s gathered his frequent collaborative partners for the project, including wife and producer Zinzi Coogler, composer Ludwig Göransson, and even gets the two-for-one combo with Michael B. Jordan playing twins.With this dream team, Sinners tells the story of Smoke and Stack, a pair of gangsters in the 1930s, returning home to Mississippi from the streets of Chicago with aspirations of building a juke joint. For us, by us, they cry as they set out to create a safe haven for black faces in the night to enjoy libations away from prying eyes.Much like Coogler himself, Smoke and Stack spend much of the movie gathering companions. Their selections include their cousin with a voice made for the blues played by Miles Caton, a veteran musician with an affinity for alcohol played by Delroy Lindo, and a host of other individuals each one just as fleshed out as the last, with incredible performances behind them.What’s typically treated as a mundane set-up for an explosive second half, is so enthralling on its own. In truth, Sinners could have spent 3 hours telling a historical epic and it would’ve still been a contender…