It becomes painfully and chillingly obvious how relevant so much of the film’s commentary is, as Lee parallels “old America” to its current state of affairs through appropriate storytelling.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 11, 2024

It took Spike Lee to bring it all together and make us laugh and cry but also make us think...

Full Review | Apr 4, 2024

Spike Lee's films aren’t paychecks. They are passion projects in every sense.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 16, 2024

BlacKKKlansman is an outright pleasure for those interested in race, politics and cinema all at once.

Full Review | Oct 17, 2023

“BlacKkKlansman” is a skillfully guised epic, far grander in scale than it may appear on the surface. It’s a film rich with metaphors and juxtapositions which we experience through the two main characters, both of whom are carving out their own identities

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 19, 2022

When Spike Lee’s upside-down American flag (sign of distress) turns to black and white then fades away, the curtain is pulled back on his audience. His latest is darkly funny while still packing some walloping emotional punches along the way.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 17, 2022

Lee's most purely entertaining film since Inside Man in 2006, BlacKkKlansman has a timeliness that taps into an imperative national conversation.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 11, 2022

Spike Lee will always be one of America's foremost filmmakers; an explosive auteur with a jarring left hook who sizes up society and social issues with Billy Wilder's wit and Old Testament fury.

Full Review | Feb 11, 2022

Perhaps Spike's broadest and most well layered joint.

Full Review | Original Score: 80/100 | Aug 27, 2021

If it had been more artistically rigorous with the slapstick, it could have arrived at Arendt's 'banality of evil', and taken that point home with guns blazing.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 30, 2021

Blackkklansman helps Spike Lee finally land in the Best Director field where he deserved a place years ago.

Full Review | Jul 22, 2021

Spike Lee has much more than a roomful of people for his audience and this is his fiery speech.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 28, 2021

Terrific performances and fearless storytelling make BlacKkKlansman a searing document that defies the viewer not to react.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 4, 2021

Spike Lee definitely knows how to land a punch.

Full Review | Feb 18, 2021

Well timed for anniversary of white nationalist march in Charlottesville where activist Heather Heyer was killed, Lee doesn't shy away from linking the past and the present this unsubtly and directly, like no other major American filmmaker.

Full Review | Feb 13, 2021

Devoted to the politics of race and blood, Lee is obliged to present a version of events largely existing outside actual history. Instead, we are offered history as the record of the beauty or emanation of the race.

Full Review | Feb 11, 2021

BlacKkKlansman may be set 40 years in the past but it's made for the America of today.

Full Review | Dec 8, 2020

The performances win out, negating questionable inclusions and historical inaccuracies, making this biographical account a thoroughly entertaining, triumphant venture.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 5, 2020

If it doesn't leave you shaking or have a pit in your stomach by the end, you're not paying attention.

Full Review | Nov 4, 2020

...as playful as it is deeply political...

Full Review | Oct 28, 2020