BlacKkKlansman(2018)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 90

Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer from Colorado Springs, CO, successfully manages to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan branch with the help of a Jewish surrogate who eventually becomes its leader. Based on actual events.



Inside Man(2006)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 81

A police detective, a bank robber, and a high-power broker enter high-stakes negotiations after the criminal's brilliant heist spirals into a hostage situation.



Da 5 Bloods(2020)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 87

Four African-American vets battle the forces of man and nature when they return to Vietnam seeking the remains of their fallen squad leader and the gold fortune he helped them hide.



Do the Right Thing(1989)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 80

On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.



25th Hour(2002)

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Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 75

Cornered by the DEA, convicted New York drug dealer Montgomery Brogan reevaluates his life in the 24 remaining hours before facing a seven-year jail term.



Malcolm X(1992)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 64

Biographical epic of the controversial and influential Black Nationalist leader, from his early life and career as a small-time gangster, to his ministry as a member of the Nation of Islam.



Summer of Sam(1999)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 69

Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American Northeast Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.



Chi-Raq(2015)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 78

A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago.



He Got Game(1998)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 60

A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter sentence.



Clockers(1995)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 64

Young drug pushers in the projects of Brooklyn live hard dangerous lives, trapped between their drug bosses and the detectives out to stop them.



Miracle at St. Anna(2008)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 56

Set in 1944 Italy, the story of four black American soldiers who get trapped in a Tuscan village during WWII.



Bamboozled(2000)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 61

A frustrated African-American TV writer proposes a blackface minstrel show in protest, but to his chagrin it becomes a hit.



She's Gotta Have It(1986)

Combined Rating:
54
Combined Critics Rating: 59

Story of a woman and her three lovers.



Crooklyn(1994)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 51

Spike Lee's vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school teacher, her stubborn jazz musician husband and their five kids living in Brooklyn in 1973.



She Hate Me(2004)

Combined Rating:
50
Combined Critics Rating: 50

Fired from his job for exposing corrupt business practices, a former biotech executive turns to impregnating wealthy lesbians for profit.



Old Boy(2013)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 25

Obsessed with vengeance, a man sets out to find out why he was kidnapped and locked into solitary confinement for twenty years without reason.



Girl 6(1996)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 42

This Spike Lee film examines the life of an aspiring actress in New York. She is upset by the treatment of women in the movie industry during one of her screen tests with 'QT'. Out of work ...



School Daze(1988)

Combined Rating:
42
Combined Critics Rating: 42

A not so popular young man wants to pledge to a popular fraternity at his historically black college.



Red Hook Summer(2012)

Combined Rating:
41
Combined Critics Rating: 53

A middle-class boy from Atlanta finds his worldview changed as he spends the summer with his deeply religious grandfather in the housing projects of Red Hook, Brooklyn.



Jungle Fever(1991)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 25

Friends and family of a married black architect react in different ways to his affair with an Italian secretary.




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