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Sinners is such a good movie. Not just for the music and overall quality, but because it tackles the topic of whiteness and who counts in the in-group. It’s a very successful racialized film. For similar reasons is why I’m not 100% on The Woman King, which is an interesting parallel to Sinners in a way. Sinners is a work of fiction that isn’t meant to depict real events, but feels like it is coming from a real place. The Woman King is an ostensibly historical story, but it performs a good bit of revisionism to the nation of Dahomey, which was a key participant in the transatlantic slave trade. The story of the film is one which would be nice to believe, but doesn’t feel genuine and leaves a bit of a bad aftertaste.