Release Date
August 15, 2025
Digital Date
September 5, 2025 (Apple TV+)
Director
Spike Lee
Writer
Spike Lee
Cast
Denzel Washington, Jeffrey Wright, Ilfenesh Hadera, A$AP Rocky
Studio
Running Time
134 minutes
MPA Rating
Rated R for language throughout and brief drug use
What is Highest 2 Lowest about?
When a titan music mogul (Denzel Washington), widely known as having the “best ears in the business”, is targeted with a ransom plot, he is jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma. Brothers Denzel Washington and Spike Lee reunite for the 5th in their long working relationship for a reinterpretation of the great filmmaker Akira Kurosawa’s crime thriller High and Low, now played out on the mean streets of modern day New York City.
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It’s been nearly 20 years since Spike Lee made a great movie. Maybe longer. He’s come close a couple of times–BlackKklansman is very good, and depending on who you ask, Da 5 Bloods has a place (my take: it’s highly overrated)–but Lee was at his best when he was an on-the-rise, angry filmmaker making gritty dramas and satires back in the 90s.
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