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).
Filmed on February 26 and 27, 2000 with ten cameras at a show in Charlotte, North Carolina, The Original Kings of Comedy captures the incredibly successful comedy tour of Steve Harvey, D.L. Hughley, Cedric the Entertainer, and Bernie Mac. Lee’s light touch lets the comics shine.
“A fresh, intimate, gloriously unpolished performance film that measures up to the classics of the genre.” —Bill Gallo, Dallas Observer