"I think this is it," Lee said of "Highest 2 Lowest," his fifth and perhaps final film with the "Training Day" star.

Spike Lee reunites with Denzel Washington for a movie that starts off a mess and ends up somewhere great. Photo: David Lee/A24

N o filmmaker loves the dirty old town that is New York more than Spike Lee. Some of us who live there will return from a day out and about—a day whose adventures might include

Lee's "re-imagining" of Akira Kurosawa's 1963 crime thriller 'High and Low' also stars Ilfenesh Hadera, Jeffrey Wright, Wendell Pierce and rappers ASAP Rocky and Ice Spice.

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

With All-Stars Jalen Brunson and Tyrese Haliburton now leading the way, take a moment to revisit the history of a rivalry that helped shape the NBA's Eastern Conference.

The sound system at the Carlton Beach was blasting out James Brown's “The Boss” while, incongruously, Spike Lee was engaged in a Rodgers and Hammerstein sing-along. "There's a bright, golden haze on the meadow,

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