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After a period outside the mainstream exploring more experimental forms, Lee returns with a vengeance in this blackly comic, and supremely timely, period satire about Ron Stallworth (John David Washington), the first African-American detective to serve in the Colorado Springs Police Department. Determined to make a name for himself, Stallworth sets out to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan. Riffing on blaxploitation motifs and concluding with an affecting documentary montage, this was evidence of a provocative filmmaker back at the height of his powers.