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 1989 masterpiece takes place over one sweltering day in Bed-Stuy. From Rosie Perez’s dancing to Public Enemy’s “Fight the Power” in the opening credits to the closing quotes by Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcom X, Do the Right Thing burns with originality, wit, anger, and empathy.
“A movie made by filmmaker working in sync with his times -- an exciting, disturbing, provocative film.” —Hal Hinson, The Washington Post
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