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).
This 1998 release scripted by Lee stars Ray Allen as Jesus Shuttlesworth, the top-ranked basketball prospect in the country, and Denzel Washington as Jake, his imprisoned father who’s out on parole for a week to convince his son to play for the governor’s alma mater in return for a reduced sentence. Spike Lee’s love of basketball, and the Knicks in particular, is well known, but for many critics, Lee’s directing skills far exceeded his screenwriting ability on this project.
“Flaws and all, this may be Spike's most purely enjoyable movie, and his best looking.” —David Ansen, Newsweek
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