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).
Except for a surprising cameo at the end of the film and the opening credit sequence in which the words of Malcom X can be heard over a montage of a burning American flag and the beating of Rodney King, Lee takes a surprisingly conventional approach to this biopic. That was a disappointment for many critics in 1992, but few could deny the power of Denzel Washington’s Oscar-nominated lead performance.
“A mortal movie about an immortal subject and the very fact that it succeeds as well as it does is a testament to Lee's skills as a filmmaker.” —Marjorie Baumgarten, The Austin Chronicle
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