Sinners

The most unusual blockbuster of 2025 — winner of four Academy Awards. Former gangsters open an African American bar, where a blues musician’s performance unexpectedly attracts white vampires.

Twin brothers Smoke and Stack (both played by Michael B. Jordan, who won an Oscar for the role) are World War I veterans, hardened not only on European battlefields but also in mafia wars. They return to their hometown from crime-ridden Chicago with a suitcase full of money. Buying a former sawmill warehouse from a die-hard racist, they quickly turn it into a bar. Of course, the brothers have their own hidden motives — but their plans are disrupted (how could it be otherwise?) by white intruders. Not the police, not gangsters, not even the Ku Klux Klan — though they do appear — but vampires. Having slipped away from Native hunters, the bloodsuckers arrive that very night, determined to feast on the fresh blood of the bar’s visitors, who have gathered to drink and listen to live blues.

— Anton Dolin

🏆 The film won 4 Academy Awards: **Best Actor, Best Screenplay, Best Original Score, and Best Cinematography** (for the first time in history, this award went to a woman — Autumn Durald Arkapaw).