Michael B. Jordan plays the twin brothers Smoke and Stack, a pair of southern gangsters just returning home to Mississippi after a stint working with Capone in Chicago. They are setting up a bar, music, gambling joint to try to bring their cash earning experience back home. Of course, there are racial undertones as well as questions about the acceptance of these "criminals" back into their community. And to drive this all home (since just being straight about race is fake news), we jump to an allegorical portrayal of racial tension in the form of vampires. And oh my, this is effective. The ugly-ness, the evil, the tension, the no-win hopelessness. Writer/Director Ryan Coogler knocks this out of the park. I'll need to sit with this for awhile and then go back and watch it again as it is one of those films that you don't see everything the first time around.
5 stars (out of 5)
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