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Esquire Says 'Sinners' should win Best Picture because OBAA is racist
Posted on 3/14/26 at 1:15 pm
Posted on 3/14/26 at 1:15 pm
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And then there were two—front-runners.
Ryan Coogler’s Sinners is the most nominated (16) film in Oscar history. Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, such are the Oscars-so-white ways of Hollywood, is still touted as the favorite for Best Picture.
Nonetheless, Sinners should win the Oscar for Best Picture. And the race shouldn’t even be close.
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Critics have hailed OBAA as a “deeply humanist story of rebellion.” Proclaim “there is nothing trivial in [PTA’s] portrait of shattered lives and relationships and of an American society shaken to its core.” But I found those claims to be untrue. The film is undeserving of the Oscar for Best Picture, most of all because its portrayal of Black people is somewhere between insidiously problematic and flagrantly anti-Black.
The most glaring example is Perfidia (this ain’t me knocking Taylor or her prodigious talent but a critique of the role), who’s sexualized to the point that I wondered whether she should be read as satirical. While Black women, too, contain multitudes, her hypersexuality seems grounded in the stereotype of a promiscuous Black woman (never to be divorced from the virtuous white woman) and appears aimed at titillation rather than some other essential story function. Perfidia is also presented as a woman who’s at least a second-generation revolutionary, and aren’t revolutionaries people of principle? It was tough for me to buy that a legacy revolutionary would snitch with the quickness on her coconspirators, if at all. The “no snitching” dictum in Black culture is rooted in a legitimate mistrust of the justice system. That Perfidia and others in the group go from radicals to state informants in the time it takes a grenade to blow maligns the integrity of Black resistance.
Perfidia also abandons her infant—“You realize I put myself first, right?” she tells Bob on her way out—a decision I judged against the extensive discourse on a so-called crisis of broken Black families.
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Posted on 3/14/26 at 1:16 pm to RLDSC FAN
Has to be so exhausting to live like this and be so consumed with how you can be offended and disrespected by everything
Posted on 3/14/26 at 1:18 pm to RLDSC FAN
OBAA wasnt very good anyway so its a moot point. At least they have a built in excuse for why already.
Posted on 3/14/26 at 1:20 pm to sgallo3
I disagree. I thought it was a blast
Posted on 3/14/26 at 1:25 pm to RLDSC FAN
quote:i must have watched a different movie. there was no titillation on my part
While Black women, too, contain multitudes, her hypersexuality seems grounded in the stereotype of a promiscuous Black woman (never to be divorced from the virtuous white woman) and appears aimed at titillation rather than some other essential story function.
Posted on 3/14/26 at 1:36 pm to RLDSC FAN
We need Oscar programs
Posted on 3/14/26 at 1:39 pm to RLDSC FAN
I don't see where the article says directly that Battle is racist. But is the criticism offered wrong? I don't think it is. Perfidia is an over-sexualized Jezebel stereotype. Bob and Lockjaw both fetishize her because she's black. With Lockjaw, well, you know, those white supremacists sure do love black girls. That's why Bob is there, too. The whole thing is just dumb caricature, but maybe that's what PTA was going for.
This post was edited on 3/15/26 at 8:08 am
Posted on 3/14/26 at 1:52 pm to RLDSC FAN
Wouldn't be an Oscar season without that last minute, stupid hit piece.
Posted on 3/14/26 at 1:52 pm to RLDSC FAN
Michael B Jordan is now favored to win best actor 
Posted on 3/14/26 at 1:55 pm to RLDSC FAN
I heard it’s was Oscar worthy from the week it opened. Screw anything Esquire says.
Posted on 3/14/26 at 2:01 pm to cfish140
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Michael B Jordan is now favored to win best actor
I liked his performance, but he wasn't as good as Chalamet, Hawke and Leo
Posted on 3/14/26 at 2:08 pm to RLDSC FAN
I thought Sinners was beautifully shot and well done with the big exception being the fricking Klan presence and shootout. That felt forced, like a BLM shriek “we black people oppressed by whitey!” ruins the film if I don’t purposely block it out mentally.
Juke joints. Elijah Wald’s book Escaping The Delta explores the music world of the black and impoverished delta scene, and the blues players who travelled around and played. It was clear from the get-go that those places were sketchy and violent as frick. some white women loved the black scene and that brought violence from jealous bar patrons and jealous husbands (at times).
Black people did stupid shite like alcohol-fueled fighting and fricking around, just like white people did, but in a different lawless context. The stereotypes exist for a reason, and the whites generally left the blacks to police themselves.
Murders and fights were common, but not nightly affairs. People got along but the threat of violence was omnipresent and black bosses had power. Think of the black butcher in Justified. I remember thinking how the juke joints scenes were pretty close to what Wald painted in his book. Sensuous dancing and provocative music was a norm.
It’s a nice film to kick back and try not to take as realistic, but the initial vampires being white and the Klan attack was dumb and forced and disqualifies this movie from any best picture consideration. Typical BLM political victim feces smeared what could have been a really good, technically beautiful vampire film.
I think Coogler was deft in not allowing this to be a blaxploitation film. It’s beautiful to look at. Should have left the politics alone because those politics paint Coogler as the actual racist.
Loved the music!
Juke joints. Elijah Wald’s book Escaping The Delta explores the music world of the black and impoverished delta scene, and the blues players who travelled around and played. It was clear from the get-go that those places were sketchy and violent as frick. some white women loved the black scene and that brought violence from jealous bar patrons and jealous husbands (at times).
Black people did stupid shite like alcohol-fueled fighting and fricking around, just like white people did, but in a different lawless context. The stereotypes exist for a reason, and the whites generally left the blacks to police themselves.
Murders and fights were common, but not nightly affairs. People got along but the threat of violence was omnipresent and black bosses had power. Think of the black butcher in Justified. I remember thinking how the juke joints scenes were pretty close to what Wald painted in his book. Sensuous dancing and provocative music was a norm.
It’s a nice film to kick back and try not to take as realistic, but the initial vampires being white and the Klan attack was dumb and forced and disqualifies this movie from any best picture consideration. Typical BLM political victim feces smeared what could have been a really good, technically beautiful vampire film.
I think Coogler was deft in not allowing this to be a blaxploitation film. It’s beautiful to look at. Should have left the politics alone because those politics paint Coogler as the actual racist.
Loved the music!
Posted on 3/14/26 at 2:24 pm to RLDSC FAN
Esquire only published that because they knew it would get angry people to click and share the story.
You’re playing right into their hands.
You’re playing right into their hands.
Posted on 3/14/26 at 2:29 pm to funnystuff
At no point in watching Sinners did I think this was the best actor and picture of the year
Posted on 3/14/26 at 2:30 pm to dallastiger55
Holy crap y’all aren’t joking
On Kalshi best actor for Michael B. Jordan has gone from 11% to 56% in a week
On Kalshi best actor for Michael B. Jordan has gone from 11% to 56% in a week
Posted on 3/14/26 at 2:35 pm to dallastiger55
I liked it but it wasn't mind blowing
Posted on 3/14/26 at 2:43 pm to CCT
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I thought Sinners was beautifully shot and well done with the big exception being the fricking Klan presence and shootout.
The Klan coming after them in 1932 Clarksdale, Mississippi isn't some great big DEI surprise.
Posted on 3/14/26 at 2:56 pm to RLDSC FAN
I feel like Chalamet is gonna be the new Leo. Nominated every year but coming up short until they finally give him one late in his career lol
Posted on 3/14/26 at 3:34 pm to RLDSC FAN
quote:
her hypersexuality seems grounded in the stereotype of a promiscuous Black woman (never to be divorced from the virtuous white woman)
Apparently she missed seeing Anora.
Posted on 3/14/26 at 3:45 pm to sgallo3
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OBAA wasnt very good anyway so its a moot point. At least they have a built in excuse for why already.
It was an inventive, well-crafted film that purposely pushed some buttons.
PTAA is a talented guy. "Sinners" seems to have momentum, though.
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