By Any Means

Name: By Any Means
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Released: 2026-09-04
Rating: 3.5

A young Black FBI agent is sent into 1960s Mississippi to investigate a wave of brutal killings targeting civil rights leaders. Forced to work alongside notorious mafia hitman Greg Scarpa, he finds himself pulled into a deadly hunt where justice and vengeance begin to blur.

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Rotten Tomatoes49%78 votes

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Joel H. · Sep 18, 20263.5 / 5

I really enjoyed this one. The movie is built around the murder of Vernon Dahmer, a Black businessman and civil-rights leader in Mississippi who was killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan after helping Black people in his community pay their poll taxes. A Black FBI agent is trying to investigate the murder, but the problem is that the FBI is basically wholly…

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