Highest 2 Lowest - Reviews

This is a Spike Lee joint in every sense, big and formally daring and pulsing with auteur energy...

Spike Lee and Denzel Washington fall back in love with New York in Highest 2 Lowest.

...whatever the flaws in Lee's remake design, "Highest 2 Lowest" rises above its issues thanks to the filmmaker's inherent skill and Washington's unbeatable charisma.

This is ultimately Washington’s show. He remains as magnetic as ever, switching in a second from affability to menace, demanding respect from his sons and colleagues alike...

...it’s not just style; the substance is all here. Lee is interested in what a legacy looks like, and in what makes the work worth the effort.

Yeah, he’s still got it.

…brilliant filmmaking done as only Spike Lee can.

Spike Lee has made a brash, bold, big-city movie with this pulsing New York adventure that doubles as a love letter to NYC’s sports and its music.

...Spike Lee’s deliriously entertaining — if jarringly upbeat — “Highest 2 Lowest” modernizes the post-war anxieties of Akira Kurosawa’s “High and Low” for the age of parasocial relationships.

...a thriller worthy of Denzel Washington.

It’s a fun remake of great Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 crime thriller High And Low.

...an exceptional piece of personal filmmaking that might be Lee’s most energetic film since “Inside Man.”