Spike Lee Counts the Cost in ‘Highest 2 Lowest’ - Eden Prairie Local News

Spike Lee counts the cost in ‘Highest 2 Lowest’ - Eden Prairie Local News

Denzel Washington in “Highest 2 Lowest.” Photo courtesy of Apple TV+ Matter cannot be created or destroyed. To receive something, you must be willing to give something up. For record mogul David King (Denzel Washington) – a man dubbed as having “the best ears in the business,” with a trophy cabinet filled with dozens of Grammys – receiving his golden nest egg after decades of building an empire may come at the cost of his legacy. The offer from …

Highest 2 Lowest is the summer's best movie

Surely it is a sign of these hard cinematic times that an auteur-helmed remake of a midcentury international cinema classic is also the most exciting, engaging movie of the summer. Before Apple Original Films removes it from theaters for its future life on streaming, Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest appears in US cinemas amid the usual summer commotion: comic-book movies and assorted remakes or sequels. As noted, Highest 2 Lowest is a remake too, bu…

Five Cent Cine: Highest 2 Lowest - Buffalo Rising

Highest 2 Lowest ★★★ (out of 4 stars) Will He Do the Right Thing? The incongruity begins with the opening sequence, as the lyrics from the 1943 musical, “Oklahoma!”—“There’s a bright, golden haze on the meadow”—ring out over soaring drone shots of skyscrapers, bridges, and rivers of a shimmering New York City. The iconic “Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin,’” sung by Broadway star Norm Lewis, is hardly the start one expects from Spike Lee’s latest, abo…