The film represents a departure for the “Black Panther” director, and a creative risk; it grapples with ideas about music, race, family, religion—and vampires.

Sinners' filmmaker Ryan Coogler says he and the team behind his box-office hit 'felt a deep responsibility to entertain' moviegoers in a touching letter shared Tuesday.

This year, the Oscar season prayer has a name, and it is “Sinners.” With “Sinners,” writer-director Ryan Coogler, one of Hollywood's most quietly seismic forces, steps into a genre long neglected by the Academy,