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‘Highest 2 Lowest’ Movie Review: Denzel Washington Crowns Spike Lee’s Messy Kurosawa Remix

Spike Lee's film features Denzel Washington and integrates New York sports culture with multiple disparaging references to Boston teams across its 133-minute runtime.

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Spike Lee transposes Kurosawa’s ‘High and Low’ onto the rhythms of New York hip-hop, with Denzel Washington’s capitalist bravado powering this fevered parable of art, money, and conscience

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In Spike Lee's new film »Highest 2 Lowest« a music label boss is targeted by nasty blackmailers. The film tells a capitalist fairy tale, ingredients: identity, morality and black culture.

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The rapper who became an actor gave life to Spike Lee's new film, Highest 2 Lowest, and held his place in a Shakespeare rap battle with Denzel Washington.

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