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Highest to Lowest Highest to Lowest Trailer
Spike Lee

Highest to Lowest

 6.7      7.4

When a titan music mogul is targeted with a ransom plot, he is jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma. A reinterpretation of Akira Kurosawa's crime thriller High and Low, now played out on the mean streets of modern day New York City.

  • Director: Spike Lee
  • Main Cast: Jeffrey Wright, Ilfenesh Hadera, Denzel Washington, A$AP Rocky, Aubrey Joseph
  • Soundtrack: Howard Drossin
  • Cinematography: Matthew Libatique
  • Screenplay: Spike Lee

Original Title: Highest 2 Lowest

Production Year2025


What do critics in other countries think?

International reviews

5 foreign reviews of Highest to Lowest (2025)

  • 1. Moviezine
    4 / 5

    Translated from swedish: Lee doesn't follow any rules for making movies and I absolutely love it. He plays around with the film and it feels like he gives in to every sudden impulse he gets along the way. It feels incredibly creative.
    - Mattias Blomberg

    Swedish: moviezine.se »

  • 2. Aftonbladet
    4 / 5

    Translated from swedish: "Highest to Lowest" doesn't have the thematic depth of the original, but it's a nonstop entertaining and surprising ride with plenty of both style and attitude.
    - Karolina Fjellborg

    Swedish: aftonbladet.se »

  • 3. Dagens Nyheter
    3 / 5

    Translated from swedish: A stylish, colorful and street-smart film with a masterful opening but rather heavy-handed towards the end.
    - Fredrik Sahlin

    Swedish: dn.se »

  • 4. Sveriges Radio
    2 / 5

    Translated from swedish: Choppy editing, messy storytelling with overblown cinematography and incomprehensibly cheesy film music that makes me want to hurl the remote straight through the TV.
    - Joakim Silverdal

    Swedish: sverigesradio.se »

  • 5. Västerbottenskuriren
    4 / 10

    Translated from swedish: Spike Lee can do better. Denzel Washington can do better. The story itself can do better. Between heaven and hell, this disappointment probably fits better in the latter.
    - Mikael Ekman Isholt

    Swedish: vk.se »



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