Polished, wondrous satire at times, oozing class!

Rating: 9/10 (24 September 2018)

This is such a well-crafted Spike Lee effort and feels as polished as anything he has created over the last decade. The wonderfully quirky story of a fresh young black police officer infiltrating the cocooned world of the local Klan and humiliating its hierarchy is told through such panache. Wonderful acting and a cracking soundtrack brings each scene alive and all references to black culture and the civil rights struggle are delivered with such poignancy, humour and at times with such powerful lines that the overall effect is like watching a wondrous creation by a masterful auteur. Of course the symbolism of Charlottesville and Trump's pandering to the alt-right makes it a very contemporary film, but even without that Lee is a class above all other retelling of the black struggles that have come out in cinema over the last few years.