Note: This review contains spoilers.
“All money ain’t good money.” That’s the heartbeat of Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest, a Brooklyn riff on Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low. Lee isn’t trying to one-up Kurosawa (no one can). He uses the classic as scaffolding to build his own New York remix, and what comes out may be his most — dare I say — conservative joint yet: a defense of family legacy, masculine authority, and cultural inheritance.
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