Mark Wahlberg and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II fight the KKK in “By Any Means,” from Paramount Pictures

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"By Any Means"

A Black FBI agent and a mob hitman bond uneasily to fight racism in the Jim Crow South of 1966 with a script that keeps nudging them into cliché quicksand.

By Peter Travers

Sep 4, 2026

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