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Highest 2 Lowest Is All the Best and Worst of Spike Lee
Spike Lee reunites with Denzel Washington for a movie that starts off a mess and ends up somewhere great.
Alan Fox’s script is rife with clunkers (the somnolent Ilfenesh Hadera, as David’s wife Pam, explains with haunting detail which items of decor on the dining table can be moved where by the police), and the intrusive score is the equivalent of garish wall-to-wall carpeting. Things kick into another gear entirely when A$AP Rocky, also known as Rakim Mayers, turns up as Yung Felon, an aspiring rapper who planned this wild act of extortion out of resentment, admiration, and desperation. It’s an assertion made as much with images as with words — a fan leading a chant about Boston sucking on the stalled train, a performance from Eddie Palmieri and the Salsa Orchestra, and Washington nodding along to a singer he loves, proving you’re only as old as you feel.
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