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).
Released on October 16, 1996, the one-year anniversary of the Million Man March in Washington, D.C., Bus allows an incredible group of actors—Charles S. Dutton, Ossie Davis, Andre Braugher, Roger Guenveur Smith—to showcase their diverse talents. The film is funny and fierce in equal measure, and the only question is how well its time-capsule quality has aged.
“Get on the Bus turns out to be a better movie than Malcolm X. With the road-picture format Lee is free at last - liberated to set his own pace and follow his better instincts” —Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel
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