Spike Lee Checks Under The Hood In The Blistering 'BlacKkKlansman'
Critic Bob Mondello calls Spike Lee's latest, about a black cop who infiltrates the Klan in the '70s, "his most ferociously entertaining (and just plain ferocious) film in years."
by Bob Mondello
Aug 09, 2018
3 minutes
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Spike Lee's new movie, BlackkKlansman, is based on a true story, but the plot sounds crazy enough that you'd be excused for thinking he'd just made it up. It's about an African-American police officer, Ron Stallworth, who went undercover in the 1970s to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan ... by joining it.
Stallworth was the first black officer hired by the Colorado Springs Police Department. In the film, when his chief
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