"Highest 2 Lowest" — director Spike Lee’s latest film starring Denzel Washington — is new in theaters in limited release on Friday, with a streaming release date already set.

The Latin jazz and salsa icon, who died on August 6 at the age of 88 after an extended illness, appears in the film's Puerto Rican Day Parade sequence in the Bronx, leading his salsa orchestra during a truly live performance alongside a ransom drop.

Spike Lee brings a new thriller to the screen, titled Highest 2 Lowest. The movie stars Denzel Washington and follows a tense moral dilemma that keeps audiences

Denzel Washington plays a New York City music mogul whose teenage son becomes the target of a kidnapping plot. The movie is a remake of the 1963 Akira Kurosawa classic, High and Low.

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but when Akira Kurosawa hasn’t been alive for 27 years to be flattered, Spike Lee and Alan Fox end up only flattering themselves with 'Highest 2 Lowest'.

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

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,

"He was in his 80s, but he had more energy than I that day," the filmmaker says of the legendary musician, who died Aug. 6 at 88.