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Now streaming on: I ve seen a lot of 1970s blaxploitation films, and I m here to tell you that Black Dynamite gets it mostly right, and when it s wrong, it s wrong on purpose and knows just what it s doing. It s one of those loving modern retreads of older genre movies. It s built around a pitch-perfect leading man, Michael Jai White, who has been kicking around in movies for 20 years and apparently building those muscles in the meantime. That means he effortlessly evokes real blaxploitation stars like Fred Williamson, who kicked around in thankless roles before hammering villains to death in urban action movies. White has a Shaft mustache and like all of the characters, is dressed in 1970s gaucherie: oversized hats, bell bottoms, shades and unbuttoned or missing shirts in patterns resembling a hippie s ideal of wallpaper. ....