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BlacKkKlansman

2018

Spike Lee

John David Washington, Adam Driver, Topher Grace, Laura Harrier ...

6.5

23,218

Drama. Comedy Based on Ron Stallworth’s real life as Colorado Springs’s first African-American police officer who went undercover to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan. Unbelievably, Detective Stallworth (John David Washington) and his partner Flip Zimmerman (Adam Driver) penetrate the KKK at its highest levels to thwart its attempt to take over the city.

	Author	Review
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"Lee and his writers have thrown as many logs on the fire as they’ve been able to find to signal the persistence of racial injustice; they have also endeavored, and mostly succeeded, to entertain."	POS
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"[It] is as much a compelling black empowerment story as it is an electrifying commentary on the problems of African-American representation across more than a century of cinema."	POS
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"That mass appeal is a huge part of what makes this funny and righteously furious American film so powerful (...) 'BlacKkKlansman' is a deafening roll of the thunder we’ve been waiting for ever since."	POS
United States	Richard Lawson Vanity Fair	"'BlacKkKlansman' is a neat little movie (...) An invigorating jumble of ideas and moods (...) Lee re-asserts himself once again as a vital, complex voice in cinema"	POS
United States	Ann Hornaday The Washington Post	"[It] winds up being Lee’s best and most necessary movie in years, confronting his audience with facts no less urgent for being painful to see clearly, much less accept: This is our cinema. This is our history."	POS
United States	Colin Covert Minneapolis Star Tribune	"It is viscerally exciting, fun and saddening all at once (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"An incendiary indictment of our current Trump moment and one of the best films of the year. A cinema giant has found his voice again (…) Rating: ★★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Steve Pond The Wrap	"This is Lee’s most vital and impassioned film in decades (...) What’s surprising is how controlled and sometimes subdued it is. Lee is a patient filmmaker here"	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"Don’t sleep on this movie."	POS
United States	Emily Yoshida Vulture	"Stylish, hilarious, and utterly uncompromising (...) The result is one of his most flat-out entertaining films in years"	POS
United States	Inkoo Kang The Wrap	"BlacKkKlansman uses history to illustrate how we're repeating it (...) [It] may well be the first film to frame the Trump era as one of regression in response to the progress of the Obama years."	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Spike Lee hits his targets effectively enough (...) It’s an entertaining spectacle (...) It responds fiercely, contemptuously to the crassness at the heart of the Trump regime (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"'BlacKkKlansman' is sobering, darkly funny, uneven and impossible to ignore (...) [It] has moving sequences and bravura stylistic flourishes, trademarks of this intuitive, grandiose auteur."	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Robey Telegraph	"Lee and his screenwriters get good comic mileage out of Ron and Flip (...) You get the sense of Lee building bridges more than wanting to burn them (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Ed Potton The Times	"[A] surreal comedy with a dark message (...) You’ll laugh and shudder, all at once (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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