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Highest 2 Lowest (2025)
Director: Spike Lee
Cast: Denzel Washington, Jeffrey Wright, Ilfenesh Hadera, Elijah Wright
5.5
83%Runtime133 min
Rating15
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When a titan music mogul, widely known as having the "best ears in the business", is targeted with a ransom plot, he is jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma.
Critical Reception & Ratings
Highest 2 Lowest, the 2025 thriller directed by Spike Lee, has received a mixed critical reception. While the film boasts an 83% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, its 5.5/10 score on IMDb suggests more divided audience reception. The film explores a titan music mogul facing a life-or-death moral dilemma after being targeted in a ransom plot.
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Fans of gritty, high-stakes thrillers will be captivated by Highest 2 Lowest, Spike Lee's 2025 crime drama starring Denzel Washington as a music mogul caught in a deadly ransom scheme. The film blends Lee's signature directorial style with an intense, morally-complex storyline that will keep audiences on the edge of their seats.
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Highest 2 Lowest is a 2025 American crime thriller film directed by Spike Lee from a screenplay by Alan Fox. It is an English-language remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1963 Japanese film High and Low, itself based on Ed McBain's 1959 novel King's Ransom. The film stars Denzel Washington, Jeffrey Wright, Ilfenesh Hadera, ASAP Rocky, John Douglas Thompson, Dean Winters, LaChanze, Princess Nokia, and Ice Spice. It is the fifth collaboration between Lee and Washington and the first since Inside Man (2006).
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