On this week’s episode of Film Club, critics A.A. Dowd and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky sit down to discuss the latest from Spike Lee, which tells the bizarre true story of Ron Stallworth, a black detective for the Colorado Springs Police Department who infiltrates the local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan by posing as a white supremacist over the phone. Probably Lee’s most mainstream movie since 2006’ s Inside Man, BlacKkKlansman is an entertaining showcase of the director’s sensibilities, combining elements from police procedurals and blaxploitation films, while turning the drama of our here and now into crowd-pleasing entertainment.

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