内容摘要：Earlier this year, an Arizona judge blocked the state’s 15-week abortion ban.

Earlier this year, an Arizona judge blocked the state’s 15-week abortion ban.

And then ... it turns into a full-on, gore-spewing, guts-spilling vampire film, one of the scarier ones you’ll see in a very long time.It’s soon clear the only thing small about this film is the timeline — one day, unless you want to count the afterlife, which is fair. How Coogler pulls everything off at once — and makes it cohere, mostly — is a sight to see.

And even more, to feel. With a crowd you don’t know, as Coogler intends it. At my screening there was frequent laughter, both joyous and nervous, some screams and not a few jumps, including one where I felt my own self leaving my seat, pens and notepad tumbling. Coogler grew up loving the jumpy moments in movies like “Jurassic Park,” and wanted to recreate the feeling.We begin our 24 hours in Clarksdale, Mississippi, with skinny Preacher Boy, aka Sammie (exciting 19-year-old newcomer Miles Caton), bloody and barely alive, staggering into a church. His father, the pastor, urges him to drop the twisted vestige of a guitar he carries. We see lightning-quick flashbacks to scenes of horror — way too quick to settle in our brains. Coogler will take his time. You got somewhere you need to be?Miles Caton in “Sinners.” (Warner Bros. Pictures via AP)

Miles Caton in “Sinners.” (Warner Bros. Pictures via AP)We then rewind, to one day earlier.

Twin brothers Smoke and Stack — Jordan and Jordan, who frequently share the screen, seamlessly — have arrived with a truckful of Irish beer from Chicago. Handing wads of cash to a white owner for an old mill and its land, the brothers tell the man they’ll “kill any of your Klan buddies” if they come around. “The Klan don’t exist no more,” the oily character replies.

The plan is to open that same night. The brothers separate to rally staff, supplies and food. They also need music. Young cousin Sammie turns out to have a soulful voice and prodigious talent on the blues guitar. They pick up a harmonica and piano player (the wonderful Delroy Lindo) by promising all the Irish beer he wants.While he had many highs in the industry, Levy also recalled a big heartbreak when “Saving Private Ryan” lost the best picture trophy to “Shakespeare in Love” at the 71st Academy Awards.

“That was the toughest night of my life in terms of the business,” Levy said. But he put on a brave face at the Governor’s Ball following the ceremony.to Levy in 2018, noting that it takes, “Something of a storyteller to get an audience hooked on the story without giving away the story.”

Levy remained devoted to Spielberg, and Amblin Entertainment, up to his full retirement in 2024. For him, it never got old.“How lucky can you be? I mean it,” he said in 2018. “We work for the best filmmaker around.”