Sinners

So, Blake, Brook, and Katja just really want to see this movie, so we’re showing it.

There’s also the fact that Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan just don’t miss (Fruitvale Station, Black Panther, Creed). It’s no surprise that this ambitious, original story has been getting killer reviews. The first two thirds of the movie is a 1930s story of black twin brothers (both played by Jordan) taking money from gangland ties in Chicago and starting up a juke joint on the Mississippi Delta. It’s a story of the power of music, blues, and the soul — and then there are the white vampires who want to drain them of their talent, and their blood.

Look, we didn’t say it was going to be a Whidbey Island movie, just that we all wanted to see it, and wanted to share it with you. It’s also rated 98% on the Tomatometer and 97% on the Popcornmeter on Rotten Tomatoes.

“It’s both a wildly ambitious meditation on American history and a rip-roaring good time.” -Dana Stevens, Slate
“There is a scene smack dab in the middle of Sinners where I felt my soul elevate to a new plane of existence.” -Sara Michelle Fetters, MovieFreak.com
“Ryan Coogler’s Sinners is a big-screen exultation — a passionate, effusive praise song about life and love, including the love of movies.” -Manohla Dargis, New York Times
“Sinners had me cheering for every thrill and spill, all while mulling the deeper concerns threaded through it.” -David Sims, The Atlantic
“An awe-inspiring ode to what music means to communities and cultures” -Kyle Logan, Chicago Reader
“Coogler has delivered one of the best blockbusters of the year, and that it has a heart and brain behind all the blood-drenched thrills just makes it that much more satisfying.” -Katie Walsh, Tribune News Service
“Far from feeling indulgent, the picture is positively economical in the way it addresses so many ideas – sociological, cultural, historical – while forwarding its rattling, viscera-soaked yarn.” -Donald Clarke, Irish Times
“What a blood rush to exit Ryan Coogler’s Sinners aware that you’ve seen not merely a great movie but an eternal movie, one that will transcend today’s box office and tomorrow’s awards to live on as a forever favorite.” -Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times
“By far the most creatively ambitious, culturally layered, artistically bold twin-led cinematic outing yet — if this sentence feels like a lot, get ready for the movie!” -Jocelyn Noveck, Associated Press
“Veering confidently between pulpy and profound, this ambitious, if occasionally uneven, meditation on art, appropriation, betrayal and redemption never sacrifices what’s on its mind for its primary aim, which is to shock and enthrall.” -Ann Hornaday, Washington Post
“Sinners has a lot of important things to say, but they’re all cleverly cloaked in a period piece populated by vampires.” -Odie Henderson, Boston Globe
“Michael B. Jordan and Ryan Coogler team for their best and most daring work yet, a game-changing vampire-gangster-western-musical that’s divisive, dangerous and primed to explode. it’s like nothing you’ve ever seen and the best movie of this young year” -Peter Travers, ABC News

Sinners opens at The Clyde on Friday, May 9, and will show Friday, Saturday, Sunday & Monday at 7:30.