‘Highest 2 Lowest’ Review: Does Spike Lee Have the Worst Ear in the Business?

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It can be easy to forget in our era of tired retellings, misguided reboots, and cash-grab sequels that some of the greatest films of all time have been remakes, especially following a particular path: the re-adaptation. That is, a film that is a second adaptation of some source material, like the Coen brothers’ True Grit , David Cronenberg’s The Fly , or John Carpenter’s The Thing .

Highest 2 Lowest , the latest Spike Lee joint, follows this prestigious pattern, but let’s get one thing out of the way up front — the film does not earn its way into this hall of fame. There are those who would argue that it was doomed from the start, in that i

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