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 1997 Academy Award-nominated documentary honors the lives of Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley, and Denise McNair, who were murder on September 15, 1963 when a bomb planted by the Ku Klux Klan exploded in the 16th Street Baptist Church of Birmingham, Alabama. Lee’s simple, talking-heads approach has a startling cumulative power.
“Director Spike Lee has made some of the most hard-edged and unsettling American films on racism and its effects. Yet none has been as moving as this.” —Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
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