Sinners (2025 movie)

Sinners
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Directed by	Ryan Coogler
Written by	Ryan Coogler
Produced by	Zinzi Coogler Sev Ohanian Ryan Coogler
Starring	Michael B. Jordan Hailee Steinfeld Miles Caton Jack O'Connell Wunmi Mosaku Jayme Lawson Omar Benson Miller Delroy Lindo
Cinematography	Autumn Durald Arkapaw
Edited by	Michael P. Shawver
Music by	Ludwig Göransson
Production company	Proximity Media
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release dates	April 3, 2025 (2025-04-03) (AMC Lincoln Square) April 18, 2025 (2025-04-18) (United States)
Running time	137 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$90–100 million
Box office	$371.6 million

Sinners is a 2025 American horror movie produced, written, and directed by Ryan Coogler. Set in 1932 in the Mississippi Delta, it stars Michael B. Jordan in dual roles as criminal twin brothers who return to their hometown in the Jim Crow South, where they are confronted by a supernatural evil. The film co-stars Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton (in his film debut), Jack O'Connell, Wunmi Mosaku, Jayme Lawson, Omar Benson Miller, and Delroy Lindo.

Coogler began developing Sinners through his production company Proximity Media, with Jordan cast in the lead role. The project was announced in January 2024, and after a bidding war, Warner Bros. Pictures acquired distribution rights the following month. Additional roles were cast in April. Principal photography took place from April to July 2024. Longtime Coogler collaborator Ludwig Göransson composed the film's score and served as an executive producer.

Sinners premiered on April 3, 2025 at AMC Lincoln Square in New York City, and was theatrically released in United States on April 18, 2025. It received critical acclaim and was a commercial success, grossing $370 million worldwide against a budget of $90–100 million. The National Board of Review and the American Film Institute listed it among the top ten films of 2025. Sinners garnered many accolades, including a record-breaking 16 nominations at the 98th Academy Awards, winning four: Best Actor (Jordan), Best Original Screenplay (Coogler), Best Cinematography (Autumn Durald Arkapaw, who became the first woman to win in the category), and Best Original Score (Göransson). It also received 13 BAFTA Awards nominations, winning three, including Coogler's win for Best Original Screenplay; four Critics' Choice Awards; two Golden Globe Awards; two Actor Awards (including Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture); and a historic 18 nominations and 13 wins at the 57th NAACP Image Awards, including the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Motion Picture.

Plot

Elijah "Smoke" and Elias "Stack" Moore are identical twins who fought in World War I. After the war, they worked for the Chicago Outfit, a crime group. In 1932, they return home to Clarksdale, Mississippi, using stolen money to buy a sawmill from a racist man named Hogwood. They turn it into a juke joint for the Black community.

Their cousin Sammie, a blues singer and guitar player, joins them. More people help with the juke joint: Smoke's wife Annie cooks; a Chinese couple, Grace and Bo Chow, provide supplies; and a field worker named Cornbread guards the door. Stack's ex-girlfriend, Mary, and musicians Delta Slim and Pearline (whom Sammie likes) also join.

Meanwhile, an Irish vampire named Remmick is being hunted by a group of Choctaw people. He escapes and turns a married Klansmen couple into vampires.

On opening night, Sammie's music calls spirits from the past and future. Remmick and his vampires ask to come in, offering money and music, but the twins refuse. After losing Mary, Cornbread, and Stack, Annie guesses they are vampires. She explains the vampire rules: they cannot enter buildings without being invited, cannot be cured, and can only be killed by sunlight, silver, or wooden stakes.

Remmick still cannot enter, and offers to leave if they give him Sammie. He wants to use Sammie's music to reach his ancestors from Ireland. He also warns that Hogwood and the Klan plan to attack the juke at dawn. When Remmick threatens to harm the Chows' daughter, Lisa, Grace invites him inside.

Only Sammie and Smoke survive the attack. Sammie hits Remmick with his silver guitar, hurting him. Smoke arrives and kills Remmick with a wooden stake. When the sun rises, the other vampires burn and die.

Smoke sends Sammie away, then kills Hogwood and his men, but is shot and dies. As he dies, he sees a vision of Annie and their daughter, joining them in the afterlife. Sammie, despite his father's wish for him to give up music and follow God, goes to Chicago and becomes a blues musician.

Sixty years later, an old Sammie finishes a performance at his local blues club. Stack and Mary, who turn out to still be alive and have not aged, visit him. Stack says Smoke let him live because he promised not to hurt Sammie. He offers to turn Sammie into a vampire, but Sammie refuses. He plays them one last song. As they leave, Sammie says that before the violence, that night was the best day of his life. Stack agrees, saying it was the last time he saw Smoke or the sun, and the only time he truly felt free.

Cast

• Michael B. Jordan as Smoke / Stack
• Hailee Steinfeld as Mary
• Miles Caton as Sammie Moore
• Jack O'Connell as Remmick
• Wunmi Mosaku as Annie
• Jayme Lawson as Pearline
• Omar Miller as Cornbread
• Delroy Lindo as Delta Slim
• Li Jun Li as Grace Chow
• Peter Dreimanis as Bert
• Lola Kirke as Joan
• Saul Williams as Jedidiah Moore
• Yao as Bo Chow
• David Maldonado as Hogwood
• Helena Hu as Lisa Chow
• Andrene Ward-Hammond as Ruthie
• Nathaniel Arcand as Chayton
• Emonie Ellison as Therise
• Tenaj L. Jackson as Beatrice

Other websites

• Official website
• Sinners on IMDb