In a joint interview, Washington and Spike Lee urge people to see the movie in theaters. Many will have to wait for Apple TV+

Right now, the only place to watch Highest 2 Lowest is in a movie theater, when the film opens in select U.S. theaters on August 15. You can find a showing near you via Fandango. That said, if you don’t feel like going to the theater, Highest 2 Lowest will also be available to watch on streaming on Apple TV+ very soon.

In choosing to adapt Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low, Spike Lee set the bar for himself formidably high. That 1963 thriller is one of the Japanese auteur’s finest, a study in stark social contrasts that unfolds in two discrete acts: the first a tense chamber drama set in the hilltop home of a wealthy manufacturer,