Marking their fifth film together, Denzel Washington and Spike Lee have collaborated once again for “Highest 2 Lowest,” a reinterpretation of the great filmmaker Akira Kurosawa’s crime thriller “High and Low,” now played out on the mean streets of modern-day New York City.

This version imagines Washington as a titan music mogul, widely known as having the “best ears in the business,” who is targeted with a ransom plot, and jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma.

As he told “Good Morning America:” “This script came to me, and it was a New York story and I knew this was Spike. I sent it to him, and he called me back like eight hours later and said ‘When do we start?’ He put the Spike on it.”

The movie, scoring a favorable 91% among the critics on aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes, featur

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