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In Spike Lee's Highest 2 Lowest, Denzel Washington plays David King, a music-industry mogul faces a moral dilemma.

Highest 2 Lowest

Directed by Spike Lee

Written by Alan Fox, based on High and Low by Akira Kurosawa

Starring Denzel Washington, Jeffrey Wright and A$AP Rocky

Classification N/A; 133 minutes

Opens in select theatres Aug. 15, including the TIFF Lightbox in Toronto; streaming on Apple TV+ starting Sept. 5

Critic’s Pick

There’s truth in advertising, and then there’s Spike Lee’s new thriller Highest 2 Lowest . In choosing to adapt Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 drama High and Low (itself adapted from the 1959 Ed McBain novel King’s Ransom ), Lee has chosen not only the perfect source material to filter through his own I-♥-NYC vision, but also the perf

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