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).
In 2017, Lee filmed a Steppenwolf Theater Company production of Antoinette Nwandu’s play directed by Danya Taymor. Inspired by Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, Pass Over follows two Black men spending their day on a Chicago street corner talking and dodging gunfire. Lee opens the film showing the audience being bussed in from Saint Sabina Church and wraps the film with another powerful montage.
“Once again, Spike Lee has found an innovative theatrical production and brought it to blistering cinematic life.” —Daniel Schindel, The Film Stage
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