But Sinners is his first non-franchise, sole-writing-credit film since Fruitvale Station, albeit with a budget two orders of magnitude bigger than that film’s $900,000. It’s a joy to watch, and also to listen to, with a bombastic score by Ludwig Grandson (The Mandalorian, Oppenheimer) that dips in and out of the film, sometimes giving way to performances by one of more of the characters, before picking up the heavy lifting again.