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BlacKkKlansman

2018 Directed by Spike Lee

Infiltrate hate.

Ron Stallworth, an African-American police officer from Colorado, successfully manages to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan and become the head of the local chapter.

John David Washington Adam Driver Topher Grace Alec Baldwin Jasper Pääkkönen Harry Belafonte Laura Harrier Danny Hoch Robert John Burke Ashlie Atkinson Jared Johnston Michael J. Burg Ato Blankson-Wood Paul Walter Hauser Ryan Preimesberger Michael Buscemi Corey Hawkins Elise Hudson Frederick Weller Isiah Whitlock Jr. Damaris Lewis Dared Wright Brian Tarantina Faron Salisbury Arthur J. Nascarella Ken Garito Nicholas Turturro Ryan Eggold Gary Ayash Show All…

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Review by adrianbalboa ★★★★½ 20

topher grace list of notable roles:

• eric foreskin
• venom from sam raimi’s emo spiderman
• grand wizard of the kkk david duke

this versatility......i will not rest until he wins a golden globe at the very least
Review by Demi Adejuyigbe ★★½ 64

This is maybe one of the most frustrating moviegoing experiences I've ever had.

It's not without its good moments. The scenes with the black student union are so powerful. I hope this film is successful enough that it ignites a fire inside the people that need it. But...

Okay.

The first act of this film sets up SO many threads with so many little sentences that feel like they're going to pay off in smart, progressive, eye-opening ways, and every single one of them is abandoned by the end without ever being commented on again. Adam Driver has absolutely no development or arc outside of being a fixture for the operation. Characters float in and out of the story without…
Review by Sean Baker 25

Really love this film. Best Spike Lee since 25th Hour.

DP Chayse Irvin kicks ass with gorgeous 35mm lensing. Beautiful framing and coverage.

Barry Alexander Brown, who has been editing most of Lee's films since School Daze, delivers once again. The pacing and bold cutting decisions are part of Lee's signature... building to an incredibly moving epilogue that had the audience sitting in deafening silence.

See it on the big screen.
Review by davidehrlich ★★★★ 6

It’s surprisingly easy to forget that “BlacKkKlansman” is a Spike Lee joint. Not only does it open with an extended sequence from “Gone with the Wind” (not a Spike Lee joint), but it also spends a good amount of time parsing the fundamental dilemma of Jewish-American identity, and takes place in the snow-white hills of Colorado Springs… which is pretty much the furthest place from Crooklyn you can get in this country.

Sure, the usual Lee flourishes pop up here and there — from the introductory text promising this buddy cop biopic is “some fo’ real shit,” to the gorgeous conveyer-belt shot at the climax, and the sobering mic drop of news footage that brings things to a close —…
Review by matt lynch ★★★½ 6

"I never used to think about it. Now I think about it all the time."
Review by Gabe 3

I thought it was very good, tragic, weird and funny. Won’t lodge any criticisms, because last night when I did that, standing in the lobby saying dumb shit like I “didn’t like how the score was mixed”, Spike Lee walked by.

Recent reviews

Review by Vaisakh KR ★★★★

A great watch! Really interesting with all those humour and action happening on the screen?
Review by mica ★★★½

it's not my place to criticize this movie even if some things made me go "uuuuh not sure about that" so all I'm gonna say is: fuck cops and laura harrier was right.
Review by smellycloudy

严肃又活泼。喜欢70年代黑人音乐的肯定也会喜欢里面的配乐。
Review by Josh White ★★★ 1

I enjoyed BlacKkKlansmen overall, but I can’t help but be a little disappointed. Spike Lee is back and angry as ever, but I feel like this film gets so bogged down in its message that it never stops and tries to be a compelling film. John David Washington and Adam Driver bring their ‘A’ game, The setup is interesting, and the film has its moments of glory, such as an incredible dance scene and pulse-pounding final act. However, it barely rises above average in terms of things like “direction” and “story”, which, over time, I’ve come to find fairly important in a film. This isn’t to say that BlacKkKlansmen isn’t a film worth seeing, because it certaintly is, but have your reservations walking in; John David may walk and talk like his father, but this is no Malcolm X.

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Review by Jeremy

Grade: C
Review by Tyler Tompkins ★★★★½

Ok, I did not really like this movie the first time I watched it. After seeing it again with my dad tonight, I LOVED it. This rarely happens, but I’m always happy when it does.

I hope John David Washington and Adam Driver are nominated for Oscars.
Review by maddie ★★★★

one of the most enjoyable films i've seen from this year, yet the subject matter is anything but. spike lee did a great job of balancing the comedic tones with tones of seriousness.
Review by Hector Mendoza ★★★★

The first act was really slow hence why I only gave it 4 stars instead of five. Granted the issues explored in the film are issues that are evident in today’s society but it’s super imperative that we know that there are still people who choose to sleep on the situation at hand or flat out rejected it. This film perfectly demonstrates Lee’s frustrations towards Trump America as well as how racial discrimination hasn’t changed in the past decades and how there’s still idiots in the KKK who try to prey on the innocent for the sake of meeting their evil agenda. Additionally, this serves as a wake up call that our oppressors have and are using physical force to…
Review by Mollie Bowman ★★★★★

fuck the kkk fuck neo nazis fuck donald trump