The filmmaker rips from the headlines, but the struggles remain the same.

| Jan 9, 2019

There's nobody left in Hollywood making broad, sweeping, lively political melodramas like Spike Lee.

| Sep 14, 2018

It's just about perfect in balance of tone, and it's easily Spike Lee's best film in years.

| Original Score: A | Aug 31, 2018

A kitchen sink and kaleidoscopic study of cultural and institutional racism in America.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 29, 2018

What I especially love is how the movie refuses to offer up any pat or easy answers.

| Aug 27, 2018

Spike Lee is one of the best directors of his generation. BlacKKKlansman assures him of that title

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 26, 2018

Until the closing shots of BlacKkKlansman, director and co-writer Spike Lee does more than control the rage. He refines it with riotous wit into a stiletto, and is all the more lethal for that.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 26, 2018

BlacKkKlansman slips seamlessly from borderline-absurdist humour to all-too-real horror, conjuring an urgent blend of sociopolitical period satire and contemporary wake-up call.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 26, 2018

...a movie that has to be reckoned with, about a subject that we seem doomed -- hopelessly -- to reckon with.

| Aug 24, 2018

BlacKkKlansman's determination to be everything for everybody - comedy/ melodrama, wish-fulfilment fable/awful warning - proves its unexpected, unconventional master-choice.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 22, 2018

BlacKkKlansman blends comic irony and outspoken polemic but still works very effectively as a hardboiled crime drama.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 22, 2018

Lee's most entertaining and thought-provoking film in years.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 21, 2018

Spike Lee isn't subtle, his is a sledgehammer approach. But being delicate wasn't the point. This is a film that needs to be seen.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 19, 2018

Lee's motivating anger produces a unique, electrifying charge.

| Aug 17, 2018

Stallworth recognizes that "white voice" is a seductive fiction, like many of the customs of association cherished within the K.K.K.

| Aug 14, 2018

For all its revelations of racist rot at the core of American society, Lee also offers a clear, specific, and wondrous, if wary, view of change that's possible because, at one time and to some extent, it actually happened.

| Aug 13, 2018

Lee would contend, I guess, that the sober approach will no longer suffice-that the age we inhabit is too drunk on its own craziness. He has a point.

| Aug 13, 2018

An entertaining jaunt through the '70s, with some dutiful grappling over the enduring question of race in America thrown in...

| Aug 13, 2018

This is one of his best films because he marries the anger and intensity with the restraint and poetry that he's so good at visually.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Aug 10, 2018

Spike is contained by a true story, and being contained allows him to focus.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 10, 2018