Spike Lee
Director
Spike Lee has a .188 batting average: 6 of 32 films rated 80/100 or higher.
- Batting average
- .188
- Hits
- 6 of 32 feature films rated 80/100 or higher
- Percentile
- top 24% of 941 directors, confidence-adjusted (how it works)
- Career
- 1986–2025
Films, ranked by rating
- Do the Right Thing (1989) — 97/100 · hit
- HIStory on Film, Volume II (1997) — 86/100 · hit
- David Byrne's American Utopia (2020) — 85/100 · hit
- 4 Little Girls (1997) — 82/100 · hit
- BlacKkKlansman (2018) — 81/100 · hit
- Lumière & Company (1995) — 80/100 · hit
- Malcolm X (1992) — 78/100
- Bad 25 (2012) — 78/100
- Inside Man (2006) — 77/100
- Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (2002) — 76/100
- 25th Hour (2002) — 75/100
- She's Gotta Have It (1986) — 75/100
- Get on the Bus (1996) — 75/100
- Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall (2016) — 75/100
- Da 5 Bloods (2020) — 74/100
- All the Invisible Children (2006) — 72/100
- Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth (2013) — 72/100
- The Original Kings of Comedy (2000) — 71/100 · special, not counted
- He Got Game (1998) — 70/100
- Clockers (1995) — 70/100
- Crooklyn (1994) — 70/100
- Chi-Raq (2015) — 67/100
- Jungle Fever (1991) — 66/100
- Summer of Sam (1999) — 66/100
- Mo' Better Blues (1990) — 66/100
- Highest 2 Lowest (2025) — 64/100
- Bamboozled (2000) — 61/100
- School Daze (1988) — 57/100
- Oldboy (2013) — 53/100
- Miracle at St. Anna (2008) — 51/100
- Girl 6 (1996) — 48/100
- Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (2015) — 48/100
- She Hate Me (2004) — 41/100
Films that qualify under the rating methodology, not a complete filmography.
Best and worst
Highest rated
- Do the Right Thing (1989) — 97/100 · hit
- HIStory on Film, Volume II (1997) — 86/100 · hit
- David Byrne's American Utopia (2020) — 85/100 · hit
Lowest rated
- She Hate Me (2004) — 41/100
- Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (2015) — 48/100
- Girl 6 (1996) — 48/100
Also on Movie Moneyball as writer. Each page is a separate record.
How these numbers work: Methodology