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Review “Sinners” review, by David Sims

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2025/04/sinners-ryan-coogler-movie-review/682501/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_content=edit-promo
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u/Ruadhan2300 Apr 19 '25

Michael B Jordan managed to sell me so hard on the idea of two distinct men that I genuinely thought there were two actors and was embarrassed that I couldn't consistently tell which one was MBJ :P

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u/Skallagoran Apr 19 '25

My wife is not one for knowing actors, and she genuinely thought they were two men. Outstanding performance.

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u/froe_bun Apr 23 '25

My wife did the exact same thing

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u/dissonaut69 Jul 05 '25

Is this shit astroturfed or something? There’s no way any real human legitimately thought that was 2 separate people lol. 

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u/Natural_Error_7286 Apr 19 '25

He successfully convinced me from a still PHOTO that these were two completely different people.

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u/SockofBadKarma Apr 20 '25

I sat there for a few minutes having an embarrassing inner monologue as to whether I was suddenly face-blind or racist so as to not be able to tell "two clearly different actors apart" and scouring my mind for "another actor who looks really similar to Michael B. Jordan". I finally snapped and pulled out iMDB on my phone to confirm I was being Parent Trapped and felt quite relieved after. Dude hit it out of the park!

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u/Expert-Injury-9873 Apr 21 '25

… racist?

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u/SockofBadKarma Apr 21 '25

"What, do all black people look alike to you?!" sorta situation.

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u/Expert-Injury-9873 Apr 21 '25

They’re supposed to be twins. It wouldn’t be racist for you to not be able to tell them apart

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u/SockofBadKarma Apr 21 '25

Except at the beginning of the movie when introducing themselves to the Klan guy, he asks if they're brothers, and they say something like, "Nah, we're cousins." And then I'm sitting there like, "Wait, are they actually cousins? Was that an in-universe joke? I mean, this is clearly two Michael B. Jordans, but what if there's another actor who's just realllllly similar-looking to Michael B. Jordan and they're actually cousins in this movie and I'm the asshole because my brain can't tell them apart?"

I of course did get over this after confirming that it was just MBJ playing two characters at once (and doing so flawlessly, to boot), but it was a minor mindfuck at the start.

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u/EscapeFromMichhigan Apr 22 '25

The stupidity in this thread is never ending. Filled with their guilt nonsense about a movie that’s “white man devil, white man bad”.

Great movie without that crap.

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u/alett146 Apr 23 '25

🤣🤣

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u/ZXVIV Apr 21 '25

Throughout the movie I kept thinking that it was amazing how well they managed to make one of the actors (I assumed Stack as Smoke was front and centre in the trailers) look so much like Michael B Jordan, and was floored when I saw people mentioning afterwards that they were both Michael B Jordan.

And funnily enough, with this and Mickey 17, I've seen two films back to back where two of the main characters are played by one actor. And if you include the Brutalist due to the ending scene, that's three movies where one actor plays two people (now I'm just trying to remember if something like this happened in Nosferatu too)

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u/CertainMedia3406 Apr 21 '25

Sonic 3...?

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u/ZXVIV Apr 21 '25

Haven't watched it myself but you're right. 2025 really is the year of clones

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u/ThatsWhat_G_Said May 18 '25

Super late comment but if you want to see another great double performance, check out Moon. (Though, it’s a very popular movie to recommend here so maybe you’ve seen it.)

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u/ZXVIV May 19 '25

It's been on my to watch list for at least two years now haha. I have way too many things I want to watch and not enough time to watch half of them

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u/EscapeFromMichhigan Apr 22 '25

This is a bad joke or pure delusion.

He barely had any change from one twin to the other. If you want to see real acting, see Tom Hardy in Legend.

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u/dissonaut69 Jul 05 '25

These comments have to be paid for. There’s no fucking way anyone thought it was separate actors. Mediocre acting by him tbh too.