One of Kurosawa's best films is Throne of Blood, a Shakespearean drama that also happens to be an underrated supernatural thriller.

Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest, Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low, and a 1962 episode of the American TV show 87th Precinct all ...

The film, based on Akira Kurosawa's 1963 movie 'High and Low,' is often audacious but also has moments that don't work.

Reuniting with his longtime leading man Denzel Washington and remaking an Akira Kurosawa crime classic, Lee captures energy and moral complexity, sometimes wildly.

After getting off to a rough start, Spike Lee and Denzel Washington find the right rhythm with their Akira Kurosawa remake Highest 2 Lowest. Here's our review.

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but when Akira Kurosawa hasn’t been alive for 27 years to be flattered, ...

Right now, the only place to watch Highest 2 Lowest is in a movie theater, when the film opens in select U.S. theaters on August 15. You can find a showing near you via Fandango. That said, if you don ...

Denzel Washington stars in a loose remake of the 1963 Akira Kurosawa film High and Low. And four anthropomorphic turtles are back in theaters for an anniversary re-release.

Spike Lee's new film "Highest 2 Lowest" stars Denzel Washington as a record mogul whose life is upended by a kidnapping.

You expect a measure (or three) of idiosyncrasy from a Spike Lee movie; few major filmmakers follow their muse with such ornery dedication. So if “Highest 2 Lowest” is Lee’s most ambitious and ...

For Washington, now was the right time to reconnect with Lee for two reasons. "It was a New York script, New York story," ...

Spike Lee's new film "Highest 2 Lowest" stars Denzel Washington as a record mogul whose life is upended by a kidnapping.