Francis Ford Coppola, 85-year-old director, may have the best four-film run yet. Beginning in 1972 and concluding in 1979, Coppola directed “The Godfather,” “The Conversation,” “The Godfather...

“BlacKkKlansman” begins with a coup de grâce. We hear a staccato drum cadence over the opening credits, the sort that invokes “Apollo 13”; “Forrest Gump”; the entirety of Michael Bay’s...