Nope is by no means perfect, but it’s just really nice to see some big-budget genre originality up there on the screen. It’s also a film I suspect will benefit from repeat viewing.
It doesn’t have that same narrative clarity as Peele’s (still) dazzling debut, but the fact we’re left to fill in many gaps about the central premise immediately positions it above the director’s previous offering, Us – a film which couldn’t sustain its revelatory punch.
Kaluuya is his…