After its theatrical run, Highest 2 Lowest involves Apple TV+ on Friday, September 5. On this remake of the 1963 Akira Kurosawa movie Excessive and Low, Washington performs a music mogul who falls sufferer to a ransom plot.
Highest 2 Lowest offers Denzel Washington followers an opportunity to see the actor group with director Spike Lee a fifth time — and the primary time in practically twenty years — and to see one other high-stakes efficiency from one in every of Hollywood’s most esteemed actors.
“Denzel Washington is past class: a display screen titan who can be a refined and delicate craftsman, with severe old-school stage coaching and blazing movie-star presence,” The New York Occasions movie critic A.O. Scott raved in 2020 because the newspaper ranked Washington as the best actor of the twenty first century thus far. “He can do Shakespeare and August Wilson, villainy or motion heroism. He’s additionally one of many supreme regular-guy actors.”
In different phrases, and to paraphrase one in every of his most well-known characters, King Kong ain’t acquired [bleep] on him. After a lot deliberation, we’ve narrowed down Washington’s nearly-half-century-long filmography to those picks for his greatest performances but.