Denzel Washington and New York City vie for the spotlight in Highest 2 Lowest, and in the final tally, the two battle to a draw. Spike Lee’s latest joint—in theaters Aug. 15 on Apple TV+ Sept. 5—is equally awestruck by its leading man and its metropolitan setting,

Spike Lee and Denzel Washington are reunited for "Highest 2 Lowest," a rap-fueled reimagining of the Akira Kurosawa classic "High and Low."

Lee and Washington’s fifth big-screen collaboration is a neo-noir crime thriller about a music mogul. Tom Page contributed to this story by David Daniel.