Good, but Ham-fisted.

Rating: 7/10 (13 June 2019)

I like the messages Spike Lee tries to send in all of his films; I'm not a fan of the way he executes things. 'Subtle' must not be in Lee's vocabulary, for every point he's trying to make is hammered home, again and again, until the viewer finally throws their hands up, screaming, "WE GET IT!" I can't say I've ever loved any of Spike Lee's films, but I haven't gone out of my way to see all of them either. To me, he seems like an angry director, bent on making sure everyone knows how angry he is, and after a while, that gets tiresome. This movie is probably the best Spike Lee that I have seen. I guess I'm just not a fan of Spike Lee, and that's fine. He's a filmmaker with a voice, and many people are drawn to that voice like it's a siren song. For me, his brash, ham-fisted way of telling stories doesn't lure me in at all.