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

Lee was joined in the Cannes press conference by Wright and Ilfenesh Hadera, who plays King’s poised and skeptical wife Pam. Highest 2 Lowest marks Lee’s first collaboration with one-time muse ...

The presentation of an honorary Palme d’Or took Denzel Washington by surprise at Cannes, where he and Spike Lee unveiled their latest collaboration, the thriller ‘Highest 2 ...

Lee’s update on Akira Kurosawa’s film is an urban thriller that feels different than the work that has defined him Spike Lee has had a checkered history in Cannes, bringing down the house with “Do the ...

“The last time I was in this room, I was apologizing for the f*ck-up,” filmmaker Spike Lee joked this morning as he walked into the press conference room in Cannes. The legendary New York ...

Highest 2 Lowest writer Alan Fox, producer Jason Michael Berman and Untitled’s Faisal Kanaan. (Photo by Victor Boyko/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty Images) Spike Lee greets Wendell Pierce and ...

Lee concluded, before a final shout-out for his true love: “Go Knicks!” Highest 2 Lowest is a “reinterpretation,” per Lee’s own words, of Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 police procedural High ...

even in the hands of such a visionary director as Spike Lee, you can’t help worrying how low a modern, New York-set update might go. For three-quarters of its running time, Lee’s “Highest 2 ...

Spike Lee’s deliriously entertaining — if jarringly upbeat — “Highest 2 Lowest” modernizes the post-war anxieties of Akira Kurosawa’s “High and Low” for the age of parasocial ...

Spike Lee got off to a strong start. Denzel Washington stars as David King, a charismatic and powerful music mogul in the midst of a high-stakes corporate power struggle when his son is seemingly ...