It’s such a shattering bummer that audiences are so primitive minded…so shallow and kneejerk vapid that the obviously schlocko Sinners, a 1930s musical vampire film that bears the stamp of Samuel Z. Arkoff and features main characters named “Smoke” and “Stack”, has pulled in $367.9 million while the obviously superior and so much richer and more artistically nourishing Sentimental Value has only earned $3,365,957 so far.
I am truly sickened by award-season handicappers who say Sentimental Value isn’t really in the game because it’s Norwegian with subtitles….God in heaven!
Scott Mantz is a case in point — he’s actually named Sinners as his all-time favorite of 2025. Would Mantz be this much of a Sinners booster if Clem Kadiddlehopper had written and directed it? And don’t forget that Mantz never even mentioned Criterion’s teal-tinting on the recently popped Eyes Wide Shut 4K Bluray.