Yes No Maybe So: BlacKkKlansman
Tuesday, May 15, 2018 at 9:47PM
NATHANIEL R in Adam Driver, BlacKkKlansman, Chi-Raq, Spike Lee, Topher Grace, Yes No Maybe So, racial politics

by Nathaniel R

Why you acting like you don't got skin in the game."

What a treat. Just as Spike Lee's latest joint was premiering at Cannes we were got the trailer. The movie is a true story about a black officer who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan. Spike Lee's given it a comic spin and it looks like a potentially huge hit. 

Let's do the Yes No Maybe So™ breakdown and take in some Cannes reactions after the jump, shall we... 

 

YES 

NO 

MAYBE SO

THE TRAILER

SINCE WE HAVE THEM, SOME REACTIONS FROM CANNES...

 

Hot damn, #BlacKkKlansman is electric. It’s simultaneously Spike Lee’s most entertaining film since INSIDE MAN and a savvy indictment of Trump-era bigotry right down to the chilling real-life climax. #cannes18

— erickohn (@erickohn) May 14, 2018

Spike Lee’s #BlacKkKlansman is an utterly incendiary piece of Americana and the director’s best in over a decade. It’s vital and volatile and at times absolutely hilarious. #Cannes2018

— Erik Anderson (@awards_watch) May 14, 2018

BLACKKKLANSMAN is electric, and its final moments are inspiring, painful and invigorating in that order. It is also, frequently, fucking hilarious, in a way that hurts. #Cannes2018

— Emily Yoshida (@emilyyoshida) May 14, 2018

I did NOT like being one of two black critics in that screening of that new Spike Lee movie.
And I am NOT looking forward to being one of the few black critics to write about it.

— Miriam Bale (@mimbale) May 14, 2018

#BLACKkKLANSMAN is @SpikeLee’s best since #InsideMan. A 2hr 8min FU to #WhiteNationalism & Agent Orange. It’s part blacksploitation part Buddy Comedy but 100% fed up & pissed off - this film goes in, y’all. That cpl’d w/ the last 5 mins will let most folks forgive its flaws. pic.twitter.com/KTH5ldAHX5

— American Black Woman @ #Cannes2018 (@THATJacqueline) May 15, 2018

Spike Lee’s ‘BlacKkKlansman’ Gets Massive Standing Ovation at Cannes. pic.twitter.com/HzxKMxMIR8

— David Franklin (@davefranklin) May 14, 2018

 

Are you a Yes No or a Maybe So on this one?

 And please tell me you've seen Chi-Raq. It just missed my top ten list in its year so I'm done with critics who are pretending that Spike Lee hasn't done anything good in years. Watch his damn movies before you say that!

 

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