It’s smart, hugely entertaining, and … The film stars denzel washington, ilfenesh hadera, jeffrey wright, asap rocky, and ice spice (in her film debut). · for his latest work, highest 2 lowest (screening out of competition at the 2025 cannes film festival), spike lee wants to honor the city of new york, and specifically brooklyn … Highest 2 lowest is a 2025 american neo-noir crime thriller film directed by spike lee. · spike lee’s highest 2 lowest, playing out of competition here at the cannes film festival, is a new entry on the scroll of great new york films. From the opening moments of “highest 2 lowest,” spike lee’s remix-as-remake of akira kurosawa’s 1963 film “high and low,” you should know that the filmmaker is here primarily for a. It is an english-language reinterpretation of akira kurosawas 1963 japanese film high and low, itself loosely based on the 1959 novel kings ransom by ed mcbain (evan hunter). · there are moments in spike lee’s new take on the classic akira kurosawa 1963 crime drama high and low (which itself was based on ed mcbain’s novel king’s ransom) where i … · it’s been almost two decades since spike lee and denzel washington last joined forces with inside man, an instant classic of the heist genre. · a family friend also took the young lee to see akira kurosawa films. · spike lee remakes akira kurosawas high and low into a thrilling caper crime movie starring denzel washington and jeffrey wright. · once we leave the suffocating surroundings of king’s home—as kurosawa did before, abandoning the tycoon’s spare, quiet, palatial home for the chaotic streets … “i wanted to see people’s heads chopped off, in samurai films,” lee told me at cannes in may, where “ highest 2 … Their fifth and latest outing, highest 2 … The director and denzel washington reunite for a movie that starts off a mess and ends up somewhere great. · ‘highest 2 lowest’ is all the best and worst of spike lee.