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Spike Lee serves another great New York film

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August 18, 2025

NO OTHER FILMMAKER LOVES THE DIRTY OLD town that is New York more than Spike Lee.

- BY STEPHANIE ZACHAREK

Spike Lee serves another great New York film

Some of us who live there will return from a day out and about—traversing streets strewn with trash or riding in subway cars that smell like an animal stall—and still think, This, and nowhere else, is home. Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest (in theaters Aug. 22 and on Apple TV+ Sept. 5) is a new entry on the scroll of great New York films. It’s smart, hugely entertaining, and profound in a way that’s anything but sentimental. With Akira Kurosawa as his guiding star—the film is a reimagining of the Japanese master’s 1963 High and Low, a police procedural with a deep moral underpinning—Lee’s film feels modest and grand at once, a movie you can see on a Saturday night and still be thinking about the next day.

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