Being audacious and reflective at once seems counter to either intention.

If you want to think about things like your life and career, one often approaches such matters quietly and pensively. If you’re being audacious, that suggests a distraction with flashier things. The opposite of introspection.

Yet filmmaker Spike Lee has combined both in his masterful approach to the new film “Highest 2 Lowest.” It premieres this Friday on the Apple TV streamer after a brief theatrical window a few weeks ago. My historical issues with Lee — the audaciousness, that is — remain, but this newest film catches him in a mood where he talks deeply and smartly about age, money, technology, and all the things that might be bouncing around the mind of a 68-year-old artist who still has a lot to say and swagge

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