Plot: Twin brothers Smoke and Stack (Michael B. Jordan) return to their Jim Crow-era southern home to open a juke joint. While anticipating trouble from the Klan, it turns out they have another enemy they could have never anticipated.

Review: It’s hard to make a vampire movie feel fresh, but that’s what director Ryan Coogler has done with Sinners, perhaps his best film to date. Expertly marrying the classic “survive the night” premise, which has paid such hefty dividends for everything from Assault on Precinct 13 to From Dusk Till Dawn, Coogler’s made an emotional, blood-soaked epic that may well go down as a classic of its kind.

Running 137 minutes, the movie takes its time building up the atmosphere of Smoke and Stack’s southern home, with us getting to know a disparate cast of characters. This makes the horror aspect all the more potent when it kicks in,...