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).
For this 2018 release, Lee received the Grand Prix at Cannes and six Oscar nominations, including his first ever for best director and his first competitive win (for the adapted screenplay). John David Washington, Denzel’s son, stars as Ron Stallworth, the first Black police officer in Colorado Springs. The film is based on the true story of Stallworth’s infiltration of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s and finds Lee in impressive control throughout.
“BlacKkKlansman is a furious, funny, blunt and brilliant confrontation with the truth. It’s an alarm clock ringing in the midst of a historical nightmare, and also a symphony, the rare piece of political popular art that works in all three dimensions.” —A.O. Scott, The New York Times
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