We Were Never the Monsters”: A Decolonial Reading of Ryan Coogler’s Sinners

By Christian Ortiz

Oye, mira.

Today I finally sat down in a dim theater and watched Sinners by Ryan Coogler. Yeah, I know, I’m late. But that was deliberate. I waited. I didn’t want to be pulled into the opening weekend hype machine, the algorithms, or the knee-jerk reviews pumped out in 24 hours to appease white Hollywood or Twitter/X timelines. I needed time to listen. T…