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BlacKkKlansman

2018 Directed by Spike Lee

Infiltrate hate.

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

John David Washington Adam Driver Laura Harrier Topher Grace Robert John Burke Corey Hawkins Paul Walter Hauser Craig muMs Grant Michael J. Burg Jasper Pääkkönen Ryan Eggold Michael Buscemi Ashlie Atkinson

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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 Jordan King ★★★★★ 8

‪Master Provoc-auteur Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman is the single most powerful film against racism and Trump’s America that there has been or will be. Absolutely electrifying, funny and terrifying, entertaining and yet incredibly disconcerting... the world is fucked up, there are problems in our global society that have gone too long unresolved, and Lee may well be the answer to a lot of things... and if he is not, then he’s sure as hell got some questions to ask and knows exactly where he’s pointing his fingers.‬
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Absolutely scintillating from the chillingly subversive starting clip from Gone With The Wind, through to the final grim symbol of a broken America, turned on its head and a far cry from any…
Review by Redmond Bacon ★★★★ 3

Fuck Donald Trump
Review by Aaron Michael

wtf is topher grace doing
Review by kristen reid ★★★★★

Good lord. I can barely believe this is a true story, it’s so wild from start to finish. Spike lee is amazing and I’m currently watching the awards show from outside PRAYING he wins best director- update to come. Topher fucking grace ?? Was so good ??? But Adam driver man. His grappling with his identity in terms of his religion was so well done it was painful to watch. I loved this so much it was my favorite film of Cannes by far I’m so impressed by every part of. Ending the film with footage from Charlottesville and then dedicating it to heather heyer ... fuck. I seriously could not stop crying mostly because I was the only American of the group of people I was with and I am just so frustrated and sad that this is our representation to the rest of the world. We can do better.

UPDATE: GRAND PRIX BITCH YES YES
Review by mady ★★★★★

FUCK YA!!!!

Recent reviews

Review by Sam Burgess ★★★★½ 1

Holy shit Spike Lee. Yes. Yes. Yes. Saw quite a few funny movies at Cannes but this one was definitely the most consistently hilarious. And all whilst dealing with heavy racial topics. But that's Spike for you really. He works at his very best when tackling racial issues, and maybe more specifically when he's taking the piss out of the bad guys in the conversation. And wow, what a gut punch of an ending. The people at my screening fell silent for at least 5 minutes. This is one of those films that should smash the zeitgeist. I think it would do crazy numbers at the box office now, and I can't see it doing any worse in August considering the trajectory our society is on. Bravo Spike. This is a heck of a picture, and maybe even his best.
Review by andytabelz ★★★★½

I've got something else written about this, but I'm going to save it until it gets a wider release in August in order to preserve certain surprises that are best left as unrevealed if you can avoid some of the other criticism that's out there so far, but I'd still like to leave something here in order to encourage people to see this and engage with it, as I believe it's an essential piece of modern American political cinema.

If you view this film as a 70s police procedural with satirical elements, BlackkKlansman will somewhat disappoint you. It's still pretty clever, funny, and mostly very well-crafted but the moments that elevate this are when it’s considered within the current political…
Review by Metrograph Bushwick ★

almost wanna bend david duke over and fuck his bussy
Review by Sarah ★★★★

Spike Lee’s come back film! A fantastic cast and an incredible story. It was visually compelling and made great use of comedic relief during times of tension. I highly recommend you to watch this film in August.
Review by Lucie ★★★★★

Outstanding
Review by John Bleasdale ★★★

Power pants
Review by dasola ★★★½

i’m only really interested in hearing thoughts about this film from black americans thanks
Review by MelvinUdall ★★★

J’ai passé un bon moment, la salle était très réceptive, et la musique originale qui revient de nombreuses fois dans le film est folle.
À la fois divertissant et dénonciateur, en accentuant quand même bien sur le côté divertissant.
Car ce qui m’à un peu gêné c’est d’avoir utilisé un biopic de chose passées il y a plusieurs années pour y intégrer des messages très actuels, de manière très peu subtile, créant ainsi des anachronismes dans une histoire qui est censée être réelle.
Les images de fin suffisaient amplement à montrer que le problème était toujours d’actualité.
Review by Alex Billington ★★★★

Damn, Spike Lee is pissed. But the film is a super extra dark comedy about infiltrating the KKK and making fun of them as much possible, not to mention damning America and shaking the audience to wake us up to what's going on. Really dug it.