Spike Lee has delivered some of the most culturally significant, generationally important and flat-out entertaining movies of the last 30+ years, and he does it again with “Da 5 Bloods,” which in a better world would be packing movie theaters across this country this Friday but will be premiering exclusively on Netflix. Wisely, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has ruled this film will still be eligible for Oscar consideration, and that’s a good thing because it deserves close to a dozen nominations.

Spike Lee has delivered some of the most culturally significant, generationally important and flat-out entertaining movies of the last 30+ years, and he does it again with “Da 5 Bloods,” which in a better world would be packing movie theaters across this country this Friday but will be premiering exclusively on Netflix. Wisely, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has ruled this film will still be eligible for Oscar consideration, and that’s a good thing because it deserves close to a dozen nominations.