Longtime film critic, podcaster, and friend of Scott Mendelson (but don’t hold that against him), Aaron Neuwirth, returns to help us celebrate the spectacular domestic debut of Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan’s Sinners. We discuss its impressive weekend upswing, near-unprecedented CinemaScore and PostTrak grades, and how its word of mouth will hopefully mitigate an otherwise expected decline as it starts to lose IMAX and other premium large-format (PLF) screens in the coming weeks.

A disclaimer. For reasons unknown the audio went mute during Lisa Laman’s climactic “Who I am and what I wish to plug,” which is unfortunate as she went on an impassioned (and accurate) monologue offering support and compassion to those impacted by Robert F. Kennedy’s absurdist vendetta against those “on the Spectrum.” I won’t say that Kennedy’s latest stupidity didn’t bring to mind Matthew Perry’s controversial comments about Keanu Reeves, but nor will I say that they did not.

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