SINNERS Hits Rotten Tomatoes With A Perfect 100% After Glowing Reviews

SINNERS Hits Rotten Tomatoes With A Perfect 100% After Glowing Reviews

The first full reviews for Ryan Coogler's Sinners are in, and critics are hailing the R-rated horror film as the best work of the Black Panther director's career...

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By MarkCassidy - Apr 11, 2025 04:04 AM EST
Filed Under: Horror

Following positive social media reactions, the first full reviews for Black Panther director Ryan Coogler's Sinners are in (via FearHQ.com), and they're even more glowing.

Though some write-ups do point out issues with the Jim Crow-era vampire drama (the lengthy run-time, an overstuffed third act), we haven't come across an entirely negative verdict yet, and the movie is currently sitting at a perfect 100% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 37 reviews.

Pretty much every aspect of Sinners is coming in for praise, from the performances to the script to the score/soundtrack, and many critics are hailing the film as Coogler's best work to date.

The RT Critics Consensus reads: "Thematically rich as a Great American Novel and just plain rip-roaring fun, writer-director Ryan Coogler's first original blockbuster reveals the full scope of his singular imagination with unforgettable panache."

You can have a read through the reviews at the links below.

Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers (Jordan) return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.

“You keep dancing with the devil, one day he’s gonna follow you home.”

Written and directed by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Coogler, Sinners stars Jordan (the Black Panther and Creed franchises) in a dual role, joined by Oscar nominee Hailee Steinfeld (Bumblebee, True Grit), Jack O’Connell (Ferrari), Wunmi Mosaku (Passenger), Jayme Lawson (The Woman King), Omar Miller (True Lies), Miles Caton, and Delroy Lindo (Da 5 Bloods).

The film is produced by Zinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian and Ryan Coogler. The executive producers are Ludwig Göransson, Will Greenfield and Rebecca Cho.

Warner Bros will release Coogler's Sinners in US theaters nationwide starting April 18th, 2025.

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MartianManHuntr
MartianManHuntr - 4/11/2025, 4:30 AM
This sounds great. I would be watching this in theater after a long time.
AllsNotGood
AllsNotGood - 4/11/2025, 4:33 AM
Cooglar simps
NoDaysOff
NoDaysOff - 4/11/2025, 4:40 AM
@AllsNotGood - you ain't even watched the movie. It is allowed to be good. Man, black people just don't win in your eyes.

I'll be watching.
AllsNotGood
AllsNotGood - 4/11/2025, 4:47 AM
@NoDaysOff - quite the opposite actually everything he does is golden in some people's eyes
CaptainAwkward
CaptainAwkward - 4/11/2025, 6:18 AM
@AllsNotGood - If you are going to be racist just be honest and direct. Don’t be a p***** about it. Grow some balls man. Just say it. Say - “I hate black, people, I hate n*********, they are absolute filth that disgusts me, I wish to rid them from this from this earth, if only hitler was still alive.” Blah blah blah. Now how does it feel to get it off your chest? It’s a relief right? Be who you are. Obviously you have an issue with black folks, we’ve established this, so just say it man, daymn. What’s with all the pretense. Are you afraid or something?
AllsNotGood
AllsNotGood - 4/11/2025, 7:04 AM
@CaptainAwkward - what did I say that was racist?
TGDestroyer
TGDestroyer - 4/11/2025, 7:39 AM
@CaptainAwkward - I didn't have that takeaway, but I didn't read too much into it. Nolanites, Gunn runners, These are Cinefiles (Scorcese), The Snyder Cut. Anybody with any measure of success has their devoted following. Whether or not it was racially charged wasn't a question I needed answered.

Unless he has as track record. Then I guess I understand it.
Demigods
Demigods - 4/11/2025, 7:44 AM
@CaptainAwkward - dude... relax because that’s not the issue here at all.

I’m stoked to see this and I think it will be REALLY good, but it’s so hard to take critics seriously when they feel like they HAVE to sing the praises of anything that’s predominantly black. Like I personally think Black Panther was mostly okay, at best... but god forbid you say that out loud. And I’m not some screaming MAGA dude or anything, just a dude who doesn’t trust critics’ opinions when it comes to something potentially politically left leaning.

The critics feel like they can’t criticize anything predominantly black, lest they get cancelled.

For the record, I’m stoked to see this. Huge fan of Michael B Jordan, but I think Cooglar is an average storyteller. I think he’s pretty great visually but just mediocre in storytelling. That doesn’t make him bad or great, just somewhere in between IMO. But the critics have to act like everything he does is pure gold because heaven forbid you criticize a “black” film. It’s just stupid political bull shit. And right now, you’re feeding into exactly the hype that I’m talking bout.

It’s like the director of the female ghostbusters movie saying “the only reason you wouldn’t like my movie is because you’re sexist”.
ANewPope
ANewPope - 4/11/2025, 9:19 AM
@NoDaysOff - Don't bother with this waste of oxygen. He's another one of those losers who makes fun of George Floyd.
narrow290
narrow290 - 4/11/2025, 10:16 AM
@AllsNotGood - Almost everything you say is racist. Just admit it
dmac3232
dmac3232 - 4/11/2025, 10:23 AM
@Demigods - Jesus [frick]ing Christ…
AllsNotGood
AllsNotGood - 4/11/2025, 12:24 PM
@narrow290 - name 1 thing I'm sure you can do that
MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 4/11/2025, 1:14 PM
@ANewPope -

"...who makes fun of George Floyd."

Because George Floyd was a loser who was praised by losers.
DarthOmega
DarthOmega - 4/11/2025, 1:36 PM
@Demigods - Fully agree. I was more excited about it when I didn't know a ton about it. After reading these reviews it made me pause. Because they heap praise on anything that highlights or makes the central theme about race, sexuality, and gender. Like that recent Emilia Perez film. That thing was basically set up to win big at the Oscars until the scandal of the lead was discovered and then the back pedalling started. The only reason for the praise was the subject matter of transgenderism.

Of course we can have conversations and art be about these issues, but it's overdone in today's society. It's starting to have the opposite effect with viewers. The film looks amazing and Coogler is a fantastic director with very good instincts behind the camera. But I think leaning so heavily into race at a time where black folks dominate all of entertainment, sports, streaming, music, slang, fashion seems stale.

Of course we can't critique anything having to do with race. That would make us literally Hitler, but that "everyone is racist" trope is starting to play out.

Also your example of the Ghostbusters. I heard the same thing for the Woman King and the movie Bros. The best way to get me to NOT watch your film is to preach to me about how morally corrupt I am for not watching it. As soon as I heard all the outlets praising this it made me think about the red carpet for Ant-Man Quantumania. They acted like Jonathan Majors performance was the second coming of Christ. One of the most mediocre and forgettable villains in the MCU and they made it out to be the best performance ever.

It's all about optics with them. God forbid anyone think they are a racist. I have no doubt the film is well crafted, but I am really getting sick of the one sided preachiness
narrow290
narrow290 - 4/11/2025, 1:55 PM
@AllsNotGood - you're also a coward apparently...this goes all the way back to the Klan hiding their faces
AllsNotGood
AllsNotGood - 4/11/2025, 2:13 PM
@narrow290 - no examples then ....got it
ANewPope
ANewPope - 4/11/2025, 3:05 PM
@MakeAmericaGrea - You just described Ashli Babbit ;)
DrDReturns
DrDReturns - 4/12/2025, 1:22 AM
@ANewPope - Wow. Edgy...
ANewPope
ANewPope - 4/12/2025, 7:44 AM
@DrDReturns - But not when it's the other way around, right?
DrDReturns
DrDReturns - 4/12/2025, 2:47 PM
@ANewPope - I mean, I won't judge Floyd on a spiritual level, but the man was a career criminal.

Hardly someone worthy of the honoring he received, and to arbitrarily compare him to a murdered citizen is just willfully ignorant and deliberately political.
ANewPope
ANewPope - 4/12/2025, 9:44 PM
@DrDReturns - A "citizen" who was somewhere she shouldn't have been, among people attempting A COUP because they were salty about an election loss, & then said "citizen" not complying with orders from the authorities.
DrDReturns
DrDReturns - 4/13/2025, 5:50 AM
@ANewPope - So... "Trespassing" is why an unarmed female with zero priors was warranted for murder?

It's amazing how politicized her murder has been forged in some peoples minds because of... "a coup"?... Even if the guided tour were truly an attempt to overthrow a government or overturn an election, does that really justify the excessive force implemented? Also, Law Enforcement has had lesser examples of force that were overly scrutinized, yet this one flies under the radar. It should give law abiding citizens pause for how the American government handles justice.

It was excessive force and government overreach 101. The sidestep comparison you've made between the routine arrest of an overdosing career criminal to the murder of an unarmed female citizen guilty of trespassing is disturbing.
Sinner
Sinner - 4/11/2025, 4:34 AM
Coogler never misses
Pictilli
Pictilli - 4/11/2025, 4:36 AM
Well it triggers the politics of the reviewers; they know to give it a good review or risk being branded as racist.
NoDaysOff
NoDaysOff - 4/11/2025, 4:41 AM
@Pictilli - And what if the movie is actually good. It's only 37 reviews up so far. I'm sure that percantage will change.
Pictilli
Pictilli - 4/11/2025, 4:48 AM
@NoDaysOff - could be...but reviewers will exaggerate how good it is to signal hard about their politics.
NoDaysOff
NoDaysOff - 4/11/2025, 5:12 AM
@Pictilli - And why is that your belief? Because I'm guessing it's more opinionated than fact based.

Because I'm sure alot of people could say the same about Nolan's movies. They've all had rave reviews but the flaws are often less than spoken about.
Pictilli
Pictilli - 4/11/2025, 5:37 AM
@NoDaysOff - because critics pretty much always do this for politically charged products.
Demigods
Demigods - 4/11/2025, 7:47 AM
@NoDaysOff - dude, I’m REALLY stoked to see this too, don’t get me wrong, but 100%?! come on. We know that’s because people are too afraid to say anything negative about a black film in the historic south. Again, I think this looks frigging awesome... but I REALLY doubt this is a flawless film.
NoDaysOff
NoDaysOff - 4/11/2025, 7:57 AM
@Demigods - there's only 37 reviews (last i checked).

I would be suspicious too if that was still the case 150+ in. But imagine if a film actually managed that and he was white or Asian, what would be the excuse then? Nah fam. I'm sure the movie is dope. Black or not all of Coogler's films have been upper tier.
timothep
timothep - 4/11/2025, 8:11 AM
@Pictilli - He said signaling his politics
Nemeres
Nemeres - 4/11/2025, 8:24 AM
@Pictilli - Black people can make quality films that draw deserved praise. You sound like a mediocre individual who's used to falling back on accusing others of bias because it's happened that he doesn't get what he wants when he wants it. Sorry that's happened to you.
Demigods
Demigods - 4/11/2025, 8:48 AM
@NoDaysOff - It wouldn’t happen with a white or asian film unless it was pandering to the very left leaning critics.

Again, I really think this is going to be awesome. I’m not saying it’s a bad movie or that this shouldn’t have a 90%+ on RT. I just think when you see 100% by more than 5 people, that’s some politically motivated nonsense. Acknowledging that isn’t a bad thing. If there was a seemingly VERY clearly right leaning movie that only Fox News commentators reviewed and it got 100% for the first 30 reviews, I’d be saying the same exact thing, but with a bit more vitriol.

Personally, I think BP was mediocre, at best. Nothing new (besides black people), not all that inspired, horrendous CGI. Not all of Coogler’s films have been upper tier, but that’s my opinion. It’s okay to disagree.

But I do think that this will be upper tier. I’m stoked to see it. Just this type of critical reception has me rolling my eyes is all. Its just annoying. Can we just get a legit review without trying to prove how much of an ally you (not you, but directed at the->) [frick]ing nerd ass critics are. Stop with the great white savior complex.
BlackStar25
BlackStar25 - 4/11/2025, 5:53 PM
@Demigods - Its important to note that a 100% on rotten tomatoes does not equate to flawless film. It quite literally means no has rated it as poor. Remember..by rotten tomatoes own metrics your review only hits rotten if you scored it as below 60%
Demigods
Demigods - 4/11/2025, 9:52 PM
@BlackStar25 - Yep! Totally forgot that for a second. Someone pointed that out and I haven’t deleted my comments because I think we can have some solid dialogue about the topic and the movie, but you’re 100% right. I screwed that up. Appreciate the call out btw!
JurassicClunge
JurassicClunge - 4/11/2025, 5:02 AM
The warped reality some of you live in 😂😂😂

Anyways!

Coogler hasn't missed yet, so I'm down to watch!

🧛🏿🩸🩸
Demigods
Demigods - 4/11/2025, 7:50 AM
@JurassicClunge - I’ve enjoyed everything he’s put out there that I’ve seen, but I don’t think his movies are the masterpieces that everyone makes them out to be. I think he’s great visually, but his stories have lacked imagination for the most part IMO.

I’m really stoked to see this and I do think this is going to be pretty [frick]ing awesome... but a flawless film? C’mon. Get [frick]ing real. Critics never do that shit for vampire films unless there’s some politics motivating it. Especially right now with he orange dick head censoring “woke” art.
JurassicClunge
JurassicClunge - 4/11/2025, 8:03 AM
@Demigods - i get what you mean but I haven't come across a single person that says his films are flawless.

Also you have to remember that RT is a like or dislike ranking so if you thought the movie was a 7/10 or 6/10 it's still counts as a fresh we leads to a perfect score. Metracritic systems are usually far more accurate 👀
Demigods
Demigods - 4/11/2025, 8:49 AM
@JurassicClunge - that’s right! totally forgot that part! Good call. My bad. Completely forgot that RT was all or nothing type reviews.
JurassicClunge
JurassicClunge - 4/11/2025, 10:17 AM
@Demigods - yep it's pretty misleading 😅😅
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