Will Spencer

Sinners's title is a nuanced dual meaning: compromising humanity and agency for the corrupt glory of American hegemony/ righteously transgressing those normative systems for personal freedom. What is true liberty when security is predicated on subservience and appropriation?

All the rip-roaring pieces in the Sinners score are great, but the most indelible one to me is the ethereal plain scene at the end where the lamentful banjo shifts into a thrumming electric guitar power ballad. A soul-stirring moment that elicited tears. https://t.co/FAnU7Zzev2

Thinking about that episode of Grey's Anatomy where a man with an overt bump legitimately believes he's pregnant and they're like "no you're just crazy and also it's a massive tumor"

Ryan Coogler has that effortlessly propulsive gift of a great blockbuster filmmaker with striking ideas. Intimately simmering character beats erupt into an operatic tension like a finely modulated visual and narrative symphony.

I love movies that ardently believe in the metaphysical power of something that the only way to communicate it is through sublime image and sound craft. The transcendental one-take sequence in Sinners breathtakingly illustrates how music unifies the African diaspora across time. https://t.co/ohJO2CtrFZ

The sociopolitical context of Sinners is so ingenious when you remember that the Irish participated in white supremacy to assimilate in America

Sinners reminds me of high-concept short stories you read early in college that emphasize art as entertaining and stimulating, seamlessly underpinning engrossing genre trappings with thematic multi-dimensionality. So enrapturing that the dense commentary is cogent and digestible.

SINNERS: A barnburner picture, both spellbinding and sensuous. Coogler's southern gothic opera traces the clash between spiritual and secular realms, where capitalism subjugates Black bodies just verging on transcendence. Assimilation's vampiric toll and illusions of salvation. https://t.co/vZEg6pdOsW

Would it elicit a lot of online vitriol if I said the first Black Panther is the only Marvel movie to exhibit any genuine cinematic merit? Like it's the only one to have any totemic impact beyond popcorn movie fodder.

This is really encouraging as someone who appreciated the tangible, intimately scaled emotional stakes of Black Widow in the age of weightless superhero dreck. Having an actress on Pugh's caliber does wonders for whatever we're doing at this point.

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The final trailer for ‘THUNDERBOLTS*’ has been released. In theaters on May 2. https://t.co/xrgFYelqg7

I'm immensely relieved that Mikey Madison, who just won the coveted Best Actress Oscar for a movie by one of the preeminent indie auteurs of the last decade, declined for her follow-up role to be from the director of Deadpool & Wolverine.

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Mikey Madison has turned down a role in new ‘Star Wars’ movie from director Shawn Levy, @Variety reports. https://t.co/jOGT0PmYq2

I'm battling a terrible cold this week but pure cinema is awaiting me on Friday in Ryan Coogler's Sinners https://t.co/aEn8tHFyYo

Blond Joseph Quinn... https://t.co/AAjpFJr4nJ

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New teaser for ‘THE FANTASTIC FOUR’ https://t.co/jjaKTtEu8N

Starting to suspect The Pitt could win the Drama Series Emmy. Severance and White Lotus are well-regarded, but they don't have that intangible x-factor of a passionate groundswell. The narrative (TV veterans returning for a potent update of the procedural) is also compelling. https://t.co/ov8RxrRXDy

I don't use that ersatz Letterboxd app for TV, so I've been tracking recent seasons I've watched in my notes app. https://t.co/WNSFz1ecq3