BlacKkKlansman

Spike Lee's 2018 film follows the first Black officer to join a police department in Colorado in the seventies. Ron Stallworth joins a racist organisation by telephone. A white colleague goes to the meetings in person. The film builds this as comedy without softening the threat; the narrative also shows the racism inside the police itself and uses present-day footage at the close. It rests on real events and Stallworth's book. John David Washington and Adam Driver lead. The closing section caused argument. Who it's for: viewers of political cinema and adaptations of real events. Who it's not for: viewers who would be disturbed by hearing racist language throughout.