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My review of Sinners (2025)
(hexbear.net)
5/5 i highly recommend, go see it. Go in blind if you can.
So many good shots, scenes, and plot threads throughout the film but there are a few in particular I wanna point out. Spoilers ahead.
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- The very beginning of the film when Sammie opens the church door.
- When Smoke imparts the lesson about always negotiating/knowing your value to the girl he pays to watch his car and the next scene is Grace knowing how much her time is worth when he asks for a rush job on the signage.
- Slim's story about his friend's lynching (this one really got me because, it never shows it as he's telling the story but you can hear it happening. GIVE DELROY LINDO AN OSCAR FOR THIS SCENE ALONE)
- The climax scene in the film when Sammie summons spirits from the past and future with his music. Amazing. I do think this scene will win the film an oscar nomination too because it is so good. The Ivory Coast dancers, the women twerking with the women making collards, the gangsters gambling in the back room...Music IS magic.
- Smoke telling Sammie to bury the broken guitar at the end of the film and Sammie refusing to because Stack told him it had been Charley Patton's guitar; to which Smoke tells him the truth - it was their abusive father's.
- The penultimate scene, bringing the film full circle to its beginning, where Sammie's father asks him to throw away the broken guitar in the name of God and he drives away clutching it to his chest. I was being very annoying to my friends about this scene in the car because it hearkens back to the prior scene where Smoke tells him the truth about it being Smoke & Stacks' father's. That guitar gave Sammie the best day of his life while also giving Smoke & Stack some of the worst days in theirs.
- Sammie's Chicago blues bar being named 'Pearline's'
GOOD FILM. GOOD SOUNDTRACK. 10/10 
HOLLYWOOD GIVE ME MORE.
Holy shit yes!!! Damn I didn't even think about that post-viewing last night but it is very similar in the sense that
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with both - to the uninformed/blind viewer, the first 30 or so minutes of the film seem like it is setting up a completely different story and then...vampires!!