Watch List Digest 8/17/25

Spike Lee's reunion with Denzel Washington ain't Kurosawa, but it ain't bad.
A sweet sleeper of a Georgian movie; plus: a bonkers fascist artifact from Depression-era Hollywood, two fine new streaming releases, and a ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ reminder.
Japanese Cinema 101, a Hollywood classic revisited, new reviews and more
Three-quarters of a century on, Billy Wilder's classic is still a bitter, bitter pill