Writer/director Ryan Coogler understands that, just as every language has words that are untranslatable or very hard to express any other way, there are things that cinema can say like nothing else.
Such was the case with a sequence from the earliest drafts of “Sinners.” Coogler wrote what he initially referred to as the “surreal montage.” It was a musical sequence set in the film’s fictional rural Mississippi juke joint, where a live performance by young bluesman Sammie (Miles…