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).
When it was released in 2002, some critics were not convinced that future Game of Thrones showrunner David Benioff’s story of a drug dealer’s last 24 hours before a seven-year prison sentence coalesced with Lee’s ruminations on 9/11. Now, almost two decades later, many think Lee’s ability to adapt the movie to capture the aftermath of 9/11 results in not only one of the best films on the subject, but also the one film that fully captures the trauma of a city and a country.
“If 25th Hour does not quite work as a plausible and coherent story, it produces a wrenching, dazzling succession of moods.” —Dana Stevens, The New York Times
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