Reuniting with his longtime leading man Denzel Washington and remaking an Akira Kurosawa crime classic, Lee captures energy and moral complexity, sometimes wildly.

A loosey-goosey remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1963 classic "High and Low," the film stars Washington as a music business mogul orchestrating a bid to buy back his label until he gets a call from a kidnapper who claims to have abducted his son,

This week, Spike Lee releases his new movie, “Highest 2 Lowest.” Starring Denzel Washington, it’s a reinterpretation of Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 crime thriller, “High and Low.” During a premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Harvey Theater on Monday,