Every Spike Lee Movie, Ranked
Updated 9/11/20 to add American Utopia.
Spike Lee's new Netflix film Da 5 Bloods has been earning mostly terrific reviews, but where does it rank among the veteran director's best films? In the gallery above, we rank every feature directed by Lee in order by Metascore (reflecting the consensus of top professional film critics) from worst to best.
Note that a few made-for-television films are not included because there were not enough reviews available to calculate a Metascore. These include Spike Lee & Company: Do It a Cappella (1990), Sucker Free City (2004), Kobe Doin' Work (2009), and 2 Fists Up (2016).
Released in 2004, Lee’s worst-reviewed film stars Anthony Mackie as a highly-paid executive turned whistleblower who becomes a $10,000-a-pop stud for his lesbian ex-girlfriend (Kerry Washington) and her friends. Lee attempts to comment on corporate greed and sexual politics in America, but loses his way in an over-long mess of subplots and sex. But judging from our User Score the film does have its fans, and you can count Roger Ebert among them.
“Spike Lee’s She Hate Me is his worst movie ever--even worse than 'Bamboozled,' his self-serving indictment of modern minstrelsy, which at least was worth arguing about.” —Peter Rainer, Vulture
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