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Spike Lee’s excellent “Da 5 Bloods” opens with Muhammad Ali and closes with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., two legends who are inextricably tied to the Civil Rights movement and Black pride. Lee uses them to highlight another commonality: their strenuous opposition to the Vietnam War.
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- Dead Presidents
Fierce energy and ambition course through Da 5 Bloods, coming together to fuel one of Spike Lee's most urgent and impactful films. Read Critics Reviews
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Jun 13, 2020 · Spike Lee’s new film, “Da 5 Bloods” (streaming on Netflix), pulls the traumas of black men’s experiences of the Vietnam War out of obscurity and puts them in the forefront of political ...
Jun 10, 2020 · “Da 5 Bloods” is full of wonderful performances, and the warm, profane masculine banter among the bloods is a response to and a relief from the horror they have shared and still face.
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The dynamite Da 5 Bloods doubles as both a blistering breakdown of America’s painful past and an exhilaratingly entertaining epic in its own right, elevated even further by its exceptional...
Jun 11, 2020 · Da 5 Bloods, Spike Lee’s epic and introspective meditation on the Vietnam war, is another reminder of the filmmaker’s considerable storytelling skills irrespective of what genre he chooses to...
Jun 10, 2020 · Spike Lee's 'Da 5 Bloods' follows Black Vietnam vets back to their old battleground—it's a film made for this mercurial moment. Our review.
