20 Best Movie Performances Of 2018

17. John David Washington (BlacKkKlansman)

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Proving that talent sure does run in the family, Denzel Washington's son John David gave a terrifically entertaining performance as real-life Detective Ron Stallworth, the black police officer who, on a whim, successfully infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan.

Though Washington's work isn't at all showy and decidedly less effervescent than his scene-stealing co-star Adam Driver, he's the perfect straight man the movie needs for Spike Lee to execute his daring vision.

As a primer for exploring racism both historic and current, Stallworth is the centre-point around which everything else revolves, and without Washington's tightly controlled yet deeply sympathetic work, it wouldn't be anywhere near as effective.

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