Spike Lee's powerful response to a troubled time

Rating: 8/10 (15 August 2018)

BlacKkKlansman walks a fine line between the hilarious and the horrifying - with some unbearable tension thrown in as the KKK's plot comes to a head. Ron's conversations on the phone with Duke are some of the most memorable and amusing in the movie, with the cop and his pals guffawing at the pomposity and ignorance of the Grand Wizard.
The film will tickle you at one moment, and the next hit you with some of the foulest and most hateful language a person could use against black people, Jews and women. It's chilling, literally, like a dunk in a cold bath - and it's also impossible to pretend that you would have to go far to hear this sort of rhetoric used today. Welcome to 4chan, ladies and gentlemen.