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Highest 2 Lowest
2025
· Movie
· 133 min
C
MEANRANK
61/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3832
- IMDb #5302
- Rotten Tomatoes #1339
- Metacritic #2884
- Letterboxd #4713
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1728
+5 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1397
- Metacritic Critics #1080
- Metacritic Audience #4819
- Kinopoisk #5310
- AlloCiné #5472
Every rating
36–83
out of 100
Split
Lowest is AlloCiné on 36, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 83. Critics average 78, everyone else 56.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →The CEO of a billion-dollar tech company, a man defined by his wealth and status, is convicted of corporate fraud. His sentence is a radical form of rehabilitation: he must live for one year in the poorest neighborhood in the country, with no resources or connections. Stripped of his identity, he must learn to navigate a world where his former skills are useless and survival depends on the very community he spent his life ignoring.
Details
- Director
- Spike Lee
- Writer
- Alan Fox
- Based on
- High and Low
- Released
- 14 August 2025
- Country
- United States, Japan
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 133 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $25.0M
- Box office
- $1.5M
- Awards
- 3 wins, 24 nominations
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Cast
Full cast (60) →
Awards & nominations
See all 27 →3 wins from 27 nominations across 10 ceremonies
| AARP Movies for Grownups Awards 2026 | Best Director | Spike Lee | Nominee |
| Black Reel Awards 2026 | Outstanding Film | Highest 2 Lowest | Nominee |
| Black Reel Awards 2026 | Outstanding Director | Spike Lee | Nominee |
| Black Reel Awards 2026 | Outstanding Lead Performance | Denzel Washington | Nominee |
| Black Reel Awards 2026 | Outstanding Supporting Performance | Jeffrey Wright | Nominee |
| Black Reel Awards 2026 | Outstanding Supporting Performance | ASAP Rocky | Nominee |
| Black Reel Awards 2026 | Outstanding Breakthrough Performance | ASAP Rocky | Nominee |
| Black Reel Awards 2026 | Outstanding Ensemble | Kim Coleman | Nominee |
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Celebration of Cinema and Television
1 nomination, 1 won
| Career Achievement Award | Spike Lee | Winner |
Hollywood Music in Media Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Original Song in an Independent Film | Aiyana-Lee Anderson and Nicole Daciana Anderson (for "Highest 2 Lowest") | Winner |
Savannah Film Festival
1 nomination, 1 won
| Legend of Cinema Award | Spike Lee | Winner |
Black Reel Awards
11 nominations
| Outstanding Breakthrough Performance | ASAP Rocky | Nominee |
| Outstanding Costume Design | Francine Jamison-Tanchuck | Nominee |
| Outstanding Director | Spike Lee | Nominee |
| Outstanding Ensemble | Kim Coleman | Nominee |
| Outstanding Film | Highest 2 Lowest | Nominee |
| Outstanding Lead Performance | Denzel Washington | Nominee |
| Outstanding Original Score | Howard Drossin | Nominee |
| Outstanding Original Song | Aiyana-Lee Anderson and Nicole Daciana Anderson (for "Highest 2 Lowest") | Nominee |
| Outstanding Original Soundtrack | Highest 2 Lowest | Nominee |
| Outstanding Supporting Performance | Jeffrey Wright | Nominee |
| Outstanding Supporting Performance | ASAP Rocky | Nominee |
NAACP Image Awards
7 nominations
| Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture | Denzel Washington | Nominee |
| Outstanding Breakthrough Performance in a Motion Picture | ASAP Rocky | Nominee |
| Outstanding Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture | Denzel Washington, Jeffrey Wright, Ilfenesh Hadera, A$AP Rocky | Nominee |
| Outstanding Motion Picture | Highest 2 Lowest | Nominee |
| Outstanding Soundtrack/Compilation Album | Highest 2 Lowest (Original Soundtrack) | Nominee |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture | ASAP Rocky | Nominee |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture | Jeffrey Wright | Nominee |
San Diego Film Critics Society
2 nominations
| Best Editing | Barry Alexander Brown and Allyson C. Johnson | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actor | Jeffrey Wright | Nominee |
AARP Movies for Grownups Awards
1 nomination
| Best Director | Spike Lee | Nominee |
Georgia Film Critics Association
1 nomination
| Best Original Song | Aiyana-Lee Anderson and Nicole Daciana Anderson (for "Highest 2 Lowest") | Nominee |
Gotham Independent Film Awards
1 nomination
| Breakthrough Performer | ASAP Rocky | Nominee |
Saturn Awards
1 nomination
| Best Thriller Film | Highest 2 Lowest | Nominee |