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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 Laura Harrier Topher Grace Jasper Pääkkönen Ryan Eggold Paul Walter Hauser Ashlie Atkinson Corey Hawkins Michael Buscemi Ken Garito Robert John Burke Frederick Weller Nicholas Turturro Harry Belafonte Alec Baldwin Isiah Whitlock Jr. Craig muMs Grant Damaris Lewis Ryan Preimesberger Ato Blankson-Wood Michael J. Burg Faron Salisbury Dared Wright Jared Johnston Elise Hudson McManus Woodend Gary Ayash Tejon Wright Show All…

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Review by adrianbalboa ★★★★½ 19

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 56

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 29

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 ★★★★ 5

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 3

"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 mangobanana ★★★★★

Truly outstanding. Washington and Driver are fantastic, but what makes this stand out is how unsettlingly prescient the themes and tone of the movie are.
Review by Maxwell Alexander ★★★★★

I'm so mad because of this movie! But like I'm mad in a good way! Spike Lee has come back from the grave in terms of film making to give us arguably the best film of his career! Stylish and impeccably cast. BlacKkKlansman is a marvel to behold that should make everyone want to have a discussion about PRESSING ISSUES.
Review by filmsandbooks ★★★★½

i might be rating this a bit high, and i probably wont lower it unless i see it again, and decide to do so, but hell. all of the cross cuts! and the ending! god in heaven
Review by shauna ★★★★★

spike lee didn't just throw shade at trump, he threw the whole damn tree
Review by Fergus McGillivray ★★★½

A few logical inconsistencies, but definitely another good one from Spike Lee. Glad to see him so directly, blatantly skewering the current administration. The kind of movie to show your kids.
Review by Juan A. Ramirez ★★★

An incendiary, dynamic piece of social justice cinema diluted in an overlong police procedural. I blame the many scenes of Adam Driver being tested by the Klan that take up so much time yet offer annoyingly little character or plot development. Driver's great, though, as are Washington and Atkinson and all the cinematic history Lee forces us to confront. The ending is a joke and the ending-ending is powerful but crammed.

That black power/white power scene, though.....whew.
Review by imancriesalot ★

trash score/soundtrack/script/too obvious

BUT ADAM DRIVER IS SO CUTE
Review by al ★★★★★

i’ll be honest i was not expecting charlottesville to come up at the end there and it was the perfect way to tie up this film. masterwork
Review by Jon ★★★

Great balance between feelgood and darkness but a bit too goofy to leave a mark, except THOSE last 2 minutes!