Kaitlyn Bernard

Brenna Llewellyn

Brenna Coates

Keilani Elizabeth Rose

Jasmine Randhawa

Natalie Malaika

Carly Fawcett

Tahmoh Penikett

Loretta Walsh

Karis Cameron

Maxwell Haynes

Aleks Paunovic

Elysia Rotaru

Taylor St. Pierre

Lochlyn Munro

Michael Eklund

James Neate

Jen Araki

Dylan Playfair

Devon Kenzo

Courtney Paige

Lindsay Gibson

Brendan Taylor

Samantha Thomas

Kaya Coleman

Alexanne Wagner

Kevin Forrest Clark

Mila Santos

Amber Piche

Craig March

Teagan Vincze

Madison Moore

Pierre Piche

Aleksander Filipović

Alan MacFarlane

Francine Laimana

Kalani Laimana

Jessie Nixon

Adam Fox

Jerry Trimble

Madison Smith

Heliya Alam

Stirling Bancroft

Mike Bundlie

Aftab S. Chauhan

Allison Chisholm

Nicholas Adam Clark

Gil Demeter

Kyler Steven Fisher

Amy Fox

Amar Deep Singh Hari

Erin Hazelhurst

Justin Hoertling

Melissa B. Kyle

Yvette Moore

Siena Oberman

Rylan Oleksyn

Suzann Toni Petrongolo

Steve Richmond

Aaron Sacks

Alex Safdie

Courtenay Semel

Holly Amber Church

Hanna Griffiths

Erin Hazlehurst

Gareth Jones

Horror

Thriller

The Sinners

Globetrotter Pictures

Neon Cinema Films

Canada

United States of America

If Seven and The Craft conceived a child and then aborted it, it would be The Sinners. Here is a movie wherein seven high school girls form a group in which each member must embody one of the seven deadly sins, but then they sin by omission instead of by commission.

For example, the girl who represents sloth “has been offered full athletic scholarships to eight [NCAA] Division I universities.” How exactly can this be? I mean, lazy people do no get full rides, athletic or otherwise. Or is the movie suggesting that ‘working out’ is not really ‘working’?

Similarly, the one who has chosen to assume the sin of gluttony must be bulimic as well, because she has no visible weight issues. And then there’s the one who admits not knowing why her sin, pride, is even a sin in the first place. This is the same girl who claims to own two Bibles (“one for [catholic] school, one for home”), which enables her to know the answer to every question ever asked in class – which in turn I assume is the source of her pride, not that there would be anything really sinful in that.

Now, if she – or, for that matter, co-writer/director Courtney Paige – had read either of those Bibles, she would know that “Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall” (Proverbs, 16:18), and that “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble” (James 4:6). I guess Paige is really the only one here who has been slothful.

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