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Two men in period attire - one in a blue cap, the other in a cowboy hat - stand next to a vintage car in a rural setting.
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Sinners review – links the past and present with music and blood

by Kambole Campbell

Final­ly free from the Mar­vel machine, Ryan Coogler deliv­ers the goods and then some with his music-pow­ered, genre-splic­ing latest.

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Two characters from a sci-fi film, a bald man in colourful costume and a woman in a grey outfit with an elaborate hairstyle, standing and looking at each other.
Review

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

by Cheyenne Bart-Stewart

Writer/​director Ryan Coogler expands his colo­nial­ist cri­tique in this epic MCU sequel which also pays mov­ing trib­ute to the late Chad­wick Boseman.

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Two Black men in colourful costumes facing each other.
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Black Panther

by Hannah Strong

Creed wun­derkind Ryan Coogler takes the reigns to deliv­er Marvel’s best ori­gin sto­ry since Iron Man.

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Two men, one older and one younger, standing in a gym setting, the younger man is shirtless and muscular.
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Creed

by Ashley Clark

A fran­chise is reborn in sen­sa­tion­al fash­ion cour­tesy of direc­tor Ryan Coogler and star Michael B Jordan.

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