Michael B. Jordan as one-half of the Smoke and Stack twins in Ryan Coogler's vampire thriller "Sinners." Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures

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There’s a scattered sequence midway through Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners” where the Jim Crow-era horror flick completely abandons expectations of twin Michael B. Jordans fighting off bloodthirsty vampires to transport viewers to a time-warped fever dream in the centralized juke joint.