Review: BlackKklansman

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4.8 • 603 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2019

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

It’s Oscars season and we’re reviewing the Academy’s big category picks. ‘BlackKklansman’ (starring John David Washington and Adam Driver) is directed by Adam McKay and has nominations for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Driver), Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and more.

The synopsis:

It’s the early 1970s, and Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) is the first African-American detective to serve in the Colorado Springs Police Department. Determined to make a name for himself, Stallworth bravely sets out on a dangerous mission: infiltrate and expose the Ku Klux Klan. The young detective soon recruits a more seasoned colleague, Flip Zimmerman (Adam Driver), into the undercover investigation of a lifetime. Together, they team up to take down the extremist hate group as the organization aims to sanitize its violent rhetoric to appeal to the mainstream.

We put the movie through our critically acclaimed rating system, which grades based on four categories:

1. Did we like it?

2. How did everyone look?

3. Will we steal stuff from it?

4. Is it problematic?

Transcript

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0:00.0	Did we like it?
0:04.7	And how did everyone look?
0:08.7	Always stealing stuff from it is a problem that it gets brunch.
0:13.5	Movie reviews.
0:16.5	Black Klansman, a Spike Lee movie with great performances.
0:23.2	Adam Driver up for Best Supporting Actor.
0:26.3	And here's one.
0:28.4	I think my second favorite movie of the Best Picture Noms.
0:34.6	Really?
0:35.4	And that's not necessarily giving huge praise to Black Klansmen because I liked it a whole lot. But man, this made me realize, as we were getting ready for this, I was like, yeah, this is probably my second favorite movie. But when I saw it, I wasn't like, oh my God. Yeah. Unbelievable. I did really, really like it. Same. But it just made me realize that I didn't, I'm not crazy
0:55.7	about the group that was nominated this year. No, same. And I didn't walk out of the theater being like,
0:59.9	oh, best picture, best picture nominee for sure. Right. I was like, okay, that might sneak in
1:05.4	to best picture. But if it's your second favorite, that's a bad year.
1:11.8	And that sounds like I'm insulting the movie.
1:14.5	I really liked the movie.
1:16.2	Right.
1:16.6	No, yeah.
1:17.1	Like, if this is a movie that, I don't know, that you'd say is like a B plus A minus type of movie, then yeah, they nominate 400 movies for Best Picture these days.
1:29.5	Hell yeah, that should be nominated.
1:31.0	But if it's the second best, like I think back to, I think 2015 maybe was the first year I started
1:38.5	seeing them all.
1:40.7	And that had whiplash.
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