The Highest 2 Lowest critiques are starting to pour in after the movie’s premiere on the Cannes Movie Competition, with many praising Spike Lee’s adaptation starring Denzel Washington and ASAP Rocky.
What are the Highest 2 Lowest critiques saying?
Critiques have begun to pour into Rotten Tomatoes. Whereas the movie doesn’t have an official rating but, many critics are praising the film, which is an adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s unique movie Excessive and Low.
The Impartial’s Geoffrey Macnab known as the movie an “entertaining crime thriller” that doesn’t handle as much as reside up the hype of Lee and Washington’s earlier collaborations, however continues to be a very good time.
The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw praised the movie’s power and life, whereas Selection’s Peter Debruge mentioned the legendary director has taken the film to “new highs, delivering a soul-searching style film that entertains whereas additionally sounding the alarm about the place the tradition could possibly be headed.”
TheWrap’s Steve Pond additionally praised the leads, saying the movie was a showcase for a “basic powerhouse” in Washington, and an upstart star in ASAP Rocky.
“When a titan music mogul (Denzel Washington), extensively generally known as having the ‘finest ears within the enterprise’, is focused with a ransom plot, he’s jammed up in a life-or-death ethical dilemma,” the official synopsis reads. “Brothers Denzel Washington and Spike Lee reunite for the fifth of their lengthy working relationship for a reinterpretation of the good filmmaker Akira Kurosawa’s crime thriller Excessive and Low, now performed out on the imply streets of modern-day New York Metropolis.”
The script comes from William Alan Fox. Each Highest 2 Lowest and Kurosawa’s Excessive and Low are loosely primarily based on a 1959 novel titled King’s Random by Ed McBain.
Lee and Washington beforehand collaborated on 1990’s Mo’ Higher Blues, 1992’s Malcolm X (which earned Washington an Academy Award nomination), 1998’s He Acquired Recreation, and 2006’s Inside Man. Lee additionally lately labored with Washington’s son, John David Washington, on 2018’s BlacKkKlansman film.
Highest 2 Lowest may have its world premiere on the 2025 Cannes Movie Competition later this month. It will likely be launched in United States theaters on August 22, 2025 from A24 earlier than it then can be accessible to stream on Apple TV+ on September 5, 2025.
