Highest 2 Lowest is a 2025 American neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Spike Lee and written by William Alan Fox, it is an English-language reinterpretation of Akira Kurosawa's 1963 Japanese film High and Low, itself loosely based on the 1959 novel King's Ransom by Ed McBain (Evan Hunter). It stars Denzel Washington, Ilfenesh Hadera, Jeffrey Wright, ASAP Rocky, and Ice Spice (in her film debut).
The film had its world premiere out of competition of the Cannes Film Festival on May 19, 2025, and is scheduled be released theatrically in the United States by A24 on August 22, 2025, before it will be made available on Apple TV+ on September 5, 2025.