Spike Lee's new film "Highest 2 Lowest" stars Denzel Washington as a record mogul whose life is upended by a kidnapping.

Reuniting with his longtime leading man Denzel Washington and remaking an Akira Kurosawa crime classic, Lee captures energy ...

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The film, based on Akira Kurosawa's 1963 movie 'High and Low,' is often audacious but also has moments that don't work.

You expect a measure (or three) of idiosyncrasy from a Spike Lee movie; few major filmmakers follow their muse with such ornery dedication. So if “Highest 2 Lowest” is Lee’s most ambitious and ...

Spike Lee and Denzel Washington are reunited for "Highest 2 Lowest," a rap-fueled reimagining of the Akira Kurosawa classic ...

A loosey-goosey remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1963 classic "High and Low," the film stars Washington as a music business mogul ...

That score is such a drag it was close to ruining the movie for me, until Lee shifts gears into a second-act action set-piece that sweeps in Yankees gameday crowds and the annual Puerto Rican Day ...

Denzel Washington and New York City vie for the spotlight in Highest 2 Lowest, and in the final tally, the two battle to a ...

A lot like the 1963 Akira Kurosawa film “High and Low,” but a lot not, Spike Lee’s “Highest 2 Lowest” goes its own unpredictable way.

A generous reading would posit that Lee’s oscillation here is intentional, with the first half of the film representing the bland, homogenized world entrapping its own lead character, David King ...

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