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).
Lee’s highest-grossing film is, not surprisingly, his most conventional, but it is also proof that he can make a very entertaining, straightforward heist film. After Ron Howard left the project to direct Cinderella Man, Lee stepped in, aiming to make his version of Sidney Lumet’s Dog Day Afternoon with a cast led by Denzel Washington and Clive Owen.
“Inside Man may be a cat-and-mouse game, but it's far from predictable. What could have been a straightforward thriller is unusually clever, visually captivating and unfailingly entertaining.” —Claudia Puig, USA Today
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