Highest 2 Lowest' is in select theaters on Aug. 22 before streaming on Apple TV+ starting Sept. 5 Spike Lee thinks his new movie with longtime collaborator Denzel Washington may be their last on-screen project together.

Among the weirdest films to premiere at this year’s Cannes Film Festival is Spike Lee ’s out-of-competition drama-thriller Highest 2 Lowest, the kind of idiosyncratic indulgence only a filmmaker of Lee’s stature is allowed.

A new Spike Lee movie is still a calendar-clearing event; in the near 30 years since She’s Gotta Have It helped kickstart the Amerindie boom and introduced the world to a brash, trash-talking auteur from Brooklyn,