Best Spike Lee Movies, Ranked

Urgent, formally inventive, four decades of essential cinema.

Lee's filmography is the most important sustained body of work in American cinema about Black life — Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X, 25th Hour, BlacKkKlansman, Da 5 Bloods. He keeps making essential films decades into his career.

See the full filmography of Spike Lee, ranked by Bynge Score — our composite of critic scores, audience ratings and freshness.