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).
This highly anticipated remake of Park Chan-wook’s Oldboy proved to be a disappointment with critics and at the box office, where it earned just over $5 million worldwide against its $30 million budget. Josh Brolin stars in this 2013 revenge thriller that failed to improve on the original in any way. Lee battled with producers over the final edit, eventually cutting the film from about 140 minutes down to 105.
“Spike Lee's remake of 2003's Oldboy is as brutally perplexing as the South Korean original, and needless for both its repetition and tweaks. Nothing is really lost in translation, or gained.” —Steve Persall, Tampa Bay Times
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