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Sinners

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How they landed
they all agreed4 critics, 78 to 88
What they said
This isn't the first time that a Ludwig Göransson score has been inextricable from the texture of a Ryan Coogler movie, but Sinners opens with someone talking about a kind of music 'so pure it can pierce the veil between life and death, past and future' [...] and then proceeds to show us exactly what that sounds like.David Ehrlich, IndieWire · we gave it 88
Film
Ryan Coogler · 2025 · United States

The guide5 of 7 came up

very mild · mild · moderate · strong · very strong — the board’s own five words, in its own order
Violence
Sex and nudity
Swearing
Drink and drugs
Upsetting
Offensive
Hard to sit through

Certificate reasons from the British Board of Film Classification, classified 17/04/2025. Their words: Strong bloody violence, gore, horror, language, sex, sex references, racism. We could not read the certificate itself off their page, so we do not print one.

All 4 reviews

Coogler's assurance and vision holds everything together.

Wendy Ide, The Observer · quoted in Wikipedia, original not read by us · FP000080
82we gave it

This isn't the first time that a Ludwig Göransson score has been inextricable from the texture of a Ryan Coogler movie, but Sinners opens with someone talking about a kind of music 'so pure it can pierce the veil between life and death, past and future' [...] and then proceeds to show us exactly what that sounds like.

David Ehrlich, IndieWire · quoted in Wikipedia, original not read by us · FP000081
88we gave it

The music alone, from the songs played by the characters to the score by Ludwig Göransson, takes the film to another level.

Mae Abdulbaki, Screen Rant · quoted in Wikipedia, original not read by us · FP000082
80we gave it

Flavorful [...] with the score and the blues performances fusing together to intoxicating effect.

David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter · quoted in Wikipedia, original not read by us · FP000083
78we gave it

Who wrote about this filmgo read them

Wendy IdeThe ObserverWhere we read it
David EhrlichIndieWireWhere we read it
Mae AbdulbakiScreen RantWhere we read it
David RooneyThe Hollywood ReporterWhere we read it

What the readers worked outwe link the room and never a person in it · nothing here moves the score

r/movies, a dissent after the reviews came inReddit

Three of the four critics we counted are writing about the score. This room is writing about everything else, and it is specific: the third act quietly stops enforcing its own rule that a vampire cannot come in uninvited, and the LED volume the film was shot on reads as flat and over-saturated to people who noticed what they were looking at. Neither observation appears in a single review we have.

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  1. FP000080Wendy Ide. The Observer. Sinners (2025). Quoted in Wikipedia, Sinners (2025 film). Read 2026-08-20. We scored it 82.Source
  2. FP000081David Ehrlich. IndieWire. Sinners (2025). Quoted in Wikipedia, Sinners (2025 film). Read 2026-08-20. We scored it 88.Source
  3. FP000082Mae Abdulbaki. Screen Rant. Sinners (2025). Quoted in Wikipedia, Sinners (2025 film). Read 2026-08-20. We scored it 80.Source
  4. FP000083David Rooney. The Hollywood Reporter. Sinners (2025). Quoted in Wikipedia, Sinners (2025 film). Read 2026-08-20. We scored it 78.Source