Best Movies of 2025, #5: Sinners

This movie is very similar to the Tarantino-penned From Dusk Till Dawn: Our characters gradually congregate at a roadhouse, and then the movie makes a very late switch from crime into vampire horror. So why is it so much better? The most obvious reason is that Tarantino didn’t just write that one, he also starred in it (shudder). This movie also reminded me of Tales From the Crypt Presents Demon Knight, which may seem damning, but is actually high praise coming from me.

Like K-Pop Demon Hunters, this was a good movie made great by having great music. I don’t envy the Academy members that have to choose between these songs.

What’s the Matter With Hollywood: Don’t Put Important Plot Elements Mid-Credits!

My friend and I saw this with an interesting crowd, a few weeks into its run. One rowdy group had clearly seen the movie already in the theater and had come out to see it again, and I enjoyed their enthusiasm. Another saw it by himself and was maybe annoyed by the other group.

Then we get to what seems to be the end of the movie and the credits start to roll, and the guy seeing the movie by himself gets up to leave, and the group that had seen it before started yelling out to him, imploring him to stay. He ignored them and left anyway. Then, just after he left, the credits stop and we get the mid-credits sequence, set in the ‘80s! This is the actual ending of the movie, and it is indeed hugely important.

Hollywood, stop doing this. Marvel earned the right to get us to stay for mid-credits and post-credit sequences, but that was a one-studio-only thing! If it’s not a Marvel movie, assume that people will leave after the first credit. Don’t have hugely important stuff happen after that.