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Monsters and Menis a rather straightforward ripped-from-the-headlines story.

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But its aided by a narrative structure that highlights complexity, rather than tidy symmetry.

This is a respectable picture that takes few chances.

One of the few chances that it does take is with Washingtons section.

The somewhat lost, cagey presence he brought to Spike LeesBlacKkKlansmanis here in more explicitly current, political light.

That kind of richness is missing inMonsters and Men.