Every Spike Lee Film, Ranked

This article originally ran in August 2012 and has been updated to include the director’s most recent films.

It is hard to fathom that Spike Lee is 68 years old. For those of us who came of age with his movies, watching Mookie throw that trash can through Sal’s window in Do the Right Thing or witnessing Flipper confront his drug-addicted brother Gator in Jungle Fever , Lee has been our political conscience, talking about race and class in America in a way no other filmmaker has over the past four decades. How can an artist of such vitality now be a senior citizen?

Remarkably, his passion and bravura haven’t diminished an iota with age. Although a respected elder statesman with two Oscars — one honorary, one for co-writing the screenplay for BlacKkKlansman — he has refused to blunt