BlacKkKlansman is at once a sober, based-on-fact historical drama and a riotously funny prank. In recreating the 1979 police investigation of a Colorado Springs chapter of the Ku Klux Klan—an investigation led by a black detective who posed on the phone as a Klan recruit—Spike Lee gives a shocking amount of screen time to the espousing of white supremacist rhetoric. Yet when that ideology is filtered through an African-American actor’s mouth and Lee’s particular cinematic style, it results in something…

We really didn't need another superhero movie after this.

A few notes on this revisit:

- Pulls no punches on the domestic trauma front. This is about a husband and father's real betrayal. That late-night fight between the parents is uncomfortably true to life.

- "Tonyloaf"

- Elastigirl caught in the series of doors is better than almost any superhero action sequence staged since.

- "I never look back darling. It distracts from the now." (What does this mean for…