Knives Out and Glass Onion may have given viewers the quintessential movie private investigator of the modern age in Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig), but the two pictures pale in comparison to the gold standard of detective movies.
Loosely based on the Ed McBain novel King’s Ransom, Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low revels in its police procedural format, and dives into the very essence of criminality, all the while examining morals, ethics, and the societal totem pole.
It is a thrilling race against time, and questions the extent of the human conscience.
This isn’t just one of the best crime movies of all time, but may very well be the Japanese maestro’s finest work.
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