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Highest 2 Lowest (2025) Premiere (Meadows x Garden)
Registration
Registration will only be open from Aug 10, 2025 (at 12 AM) to Aug 22, 2025 (at 5 PM).
It's now 8:40 AM on Aug 2, 2025.
Details
Hey film buffs and cinephiles! Want to catch the premiere of the newest Denzel Washington and Spike Lee joint at the #1 ranked movie theater in all of New Jersey? It's an A24 x Apple TV production, so it's sure to entertain. Sign up for a FREE ticket to the showing.
Movie theater snacks (e.g., popcorn and soda), while delectable, are sadly sold separately! 'tis a BYOB type occasion.
Highest 2 Lowest had its world premiere at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, and now it's coming to our tiny suburb's two-screen movie theater. Spike Lee and Denzel Washington re-team for the first time in 20 years for a reinterpretation of the acclaimed Japanese movie director Akira Kurosawa's classic High and Low (1963).
"Variety - Peter Debruge
In the end, Lee has taken “High and Low” to new highs, delivering a soul-searching genre movie that entertains while also sounding the alarm about where the culture could be headed."
"The Wrap - Steve Pond
“Highest 2 Lowest” is a mixture of gleaming, professional filmmaking and curious choices. It’s a showcase for a classic powerhouse, Washington, and an upstart one, ASAP Rocky. Overhauling and updating Kurosawa’s film by turning the lead character from a shoe executive to a music mogul, it simultaneously drags the story into the social-media age and uses it to pay tribute to older urban dramas."
"The Playlist - Gregory Ellwood
Now, not to backtrack from what might seem like a rave review, we’ll remind you that “Highest 2 Lowest” has quite a rough start, and Lee’s excesses are not for everyone. It’s no shame that this thriller isn’t even in the top pantheon of Lee joints, as he refers to them. The man has some masterpieces on his resume. It might be in Washington’s, however. He’s so viscerally engaging that you want to see the movie again just to enjoy his performance. Is that a result of the collective experience of having the gang back together again? Or is Washington just on a roll? Either way, let’s just hope we don’t have to wait another 20 years to find out."
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