

Highest 2 Lowest
All $$ ain't good $$.
When a titan music mogul, widely known as having the "best ears in the business", is targeted with a ransom plot, he is jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma.
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5.5/10
565 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $25M
- Box office
- $1.5M
- Language
- English
- new york city
- based on novel or book
- ransom
- remake
- based on movie
- moral dilemma
- insecure
- police procedural
- absurd
- arrogant
- conceited
- pretentious
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Release dates
IndiaIN
- Digital / OTTAApple TV+5 Sept 2025
United StatesUS
- Premiere Brooklyn Academy of Music Harvey Theater11 Aug 2025
- Theatrical (limited)R15 Aug 2025
- Digital / OTTRApple TV+4 Sept 2025
- PremiereSCAD Savannah Film Festival28 Oct 2025
- PhysicalR4K Ultra HD / Blu-ray28 Apr 2026
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical (limited)1526 Aug 2025
- Digital / OTT15Apple TV+5 Sept 2025
United Arab EmiratesAE
- Digital / OTTApple TV+5 Sept 2025
AustraliaAU
- Digital / OTTMA 15+Apple TV+5 Sept 2025
CanadaCA
- Theatrical (limited)15 Aug 2025
- Digital / OTT18AApple TV+4 Sept 2025
AlbaniaAL
- Digital / OTTApple TV15 Sept 2026
AlgeriaDZ
- Digital / OTTApple TV15 Sept 2026
American SamoaAS
- Digital / OTTApple TV+4 Sept 2025
AngolaAO
- Digital / OTTApple TV15 Sept 2026
AnguillaAI
- Digital / OTTApple TV+4 Sept 2025
Antigua & BarbudaAG
- Digital / OTTApple TV+4 Sept 2025
Frequently asked questions
Highest 2 Lowest was released on 14 August 2025.
Audience reviews
3- C6/10
Chris Sawin
8/12/2025
Based on Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 film High and Low, which was loosely based on the 1959 novel King Ransom by Ed McBain (the pen name of Evan Hunter), Highest 2 Lowest is Spike Lee’s modern-day reimagining. David King (Denzel Washington) is a music mogul making his fortune as having “the best ears in the business.” He established Stackin’ Hits Records, which was a huge record label for black artists in the early 2000s. …
- B6/10
Brent Marchant
8/24/2025
Director Spike Lee is known for having made his share of fine films (“Do the Right Thing” (1989), “Malcolm X” (1992), “She’s Gotta Have It” (1986), “BlacKkKlansman” (2018) and “Da 5 Bloods” (2020), among others), as well as his share of misfires (“Chi-Raq” (2015), “Red Hook Summer” (2012) and “Bamboozled” (2000), to name a few), but rarely do his pictures fall squarely in the largely indistinguishable middle. Such is…
- C4/10
Chandler Danier
9/7/2025
Denzel is the man. Spike Lee is a GOAT. A24 tends to be the bee's knees. Kurosawa...more GOATed film pedigree. ASAP Rocky also great. Apple ooooh they're a big company. Some could argue the best company... This movie starts off with 2 minutes of some annoying prick's NY vacation footage. Old men and their technology. Spike Lee. You're just like Scorsese. Past due. Please stop making boring movies and maybe you'll …
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