Denzel Washington plays a music mogul who faces a series of big moral choices in a film whose sensational third act justifies ...

The rapper-turned-actor jolts the director's Kurosawa remake to life—and holds his own in a Shakespearean rap battle with Denzel Washington.

Spike Lee going for a lighter tone, he achieves something different here, which makes Highest 2 Lowest easier to love in a way.

Lee’s update on Akira Kurosawa’s film is an urban thriller that feels different than the work that has defined him Spike Lee has had a checkered history in Cannes, bringing down the house with “Do the ...

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 ...

Lee was joined in the Cannes press conference by Wright and Ilfenesh Hadera, who plays King’s poised and skeptical wife Pam. Highest 2 Lowest marks Lee’s first collaboration with one-time muse ...

The reinterpretation of Akira Kurosawa’s masterful 1963 police procedural about an abduction and ransom plot also stars Jeffrey Wright and A$AP Rocky. By David ...

Denzel Washington sandwiched a whirlwind trip to the Cannes Film Festival in between Broadway performances for the premiere ...

Highest 2 Lowest opens in theaters Friday, August 22, before streaming on Apple TV+ on Friday, September 5. This review is based on a screening at the Cannes Film Festival. Spike Lee can shift ...

There’s enormous risk in remaking a movie like “High and Low.” Japanese master Akira Kurosawa set the ... of its running time, Lee’s “Highest 2 Lowest” glides along far better than ...