This achievement comes amid much discourse surrounding Sinners, particularly alongside another highlight of the 2025 film industry: Marty Supreme. I myself enjoyed both movies as well—although I preferred Sinners, the accolades that Marty Supreme recieved was not undeserved. Marty Supreme, by contrast, is treated with kid gloves, its underperformance reframed as promise, patience, and ‘long-term upside.’ Same outlet, same box-office math, wildly different conclusions. In this context, the anxious hedging around Sinners’ success feels less like neutral analysis and more like institutional habit. Hollywood is happy to benefit from Black audiences and Black labor, but far less comfortable acknowledging Black achievement without qualifiers, caveats, or a quiet shift of the goalposts.

Source: The Guardian January 23, 2026 07:15 UTC