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 2015 reimagining of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes is set in contemporary Chicago. It’s an overflowing amalgamation of comedy, musical, and action that follows a group of women led by Lysistrata (Teyonah Parris of Dear White People) who withhold sex in hopes of curbing the city’s pervasive violence.
“A Molotov cocktail of laughs and anger, Chi-Raq is a powerful state of a nation address. The result is the most creatively exciting Lee has been in a decade.” —Olly Richards, Empire
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