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Movie Review: Spike Lee's 'Highest 2 Lowest' finds its groove in New York's streets
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This image released by A24 shows Denzel Washington in a scene from "Highest 2 Lowest." - photo by A24 via AP
Spike Lee’s “Highest 2 Lowest” takes some time to find its groove. But once it does, when the film leaves the high rises and puts its feet on the New York pavement, it really sings. A reimagining of Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 crime thriller “High and Low,” Lee brings the story to a modern-day New York where a music mogul, played by Denzel Washington, is faced with a moral dilemma: Save a kidnapped kid or his flagging empire.