Regardless of scale, these Spike Lee films are the best the director has to offer. Spike Lee’s third feature film hits so close to home for so many Americans that it still feels relevant to this day.
At the same time, though, Inside Man is very much a Spike Lee Joint.
Movies like Red Hook Summer and Bamboozled are some recent examples of Spike Lee films that, while they aren’t filmed on the same scale as one of his larger studio projects, embrace more daring ideas on a much smaller budget.
No other director has been able to confront the racial and societal differences between black and white people like Lee.