No one can accuse writer-director Jordan Peele of resting on his laurels. In his third directorial effort, “Nope,” Peele takes as big a leap forward in terms of ambition and audacity as he did from “Get Out” to “Us,” remaining as personal, obsessive, and idiosyncratic as ever in his interests but exploring his preoccupations across a more expansive canvas. “Nope” is both a nerve-shredding sci-fi horror film and a wry, multi-faceted satire, a spectacle about spectacle that delivers the satisfactions of the summer tentpole movie while asking why we crave those satisfactions — and what it costs the people who manufacture them.
By populating his sci-fi epic with characters operating on the margins of show business — a financially strapped horse trainer (Daniel Kaluuya), his attention-hungry sister (Keke Palmer), a grown-up child actor with a traumatic past (Steven Yeun), and a past his prime cinematographer (Michael Wincott) — Peele is able to pull...
By populating his sci-fi epic with characters operating on the margins of show business — a financially strapped horse trainer (Daniel Kaluuya), his attention-hungry sister (Keke Palmer), a grown-up child actor with a traumatic past (Steven Yeun), and a past his prime cinematographer (Michael Wincott) — Peele is able to pull...
- 7/19/2022
- by Jim Hemphill
- Indiewire
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