Nope
When a movie opens with a title card bearing the line, "I will cast abominable filth upon you, make you vile and make you a spectacle”, you know you're in for a wild ride. Those familiar with director Jordan Peele’s previous features – Get Out and Us – will also know better than to cast off that Biblical passage as pretentious fearmongering. Almost every frame in Nope is meticulously designed to reveal more about the movie’s deceptively simple premise, and it’s this penchant for the ambiguous that has established Peele as one of the most exciting – and divisive – filmmakers working today. Nope is his boldest vision to date; a 135-minute horror-comedy that delights, surprises and at times frustrates while remaining unmistakably the work of its boundary-pushing creator. Cowboys and aliens Steven Yeun plays a mysterious amusement park owner in Nope (Image credit: © Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved.) As we’ve come to expect from Peele, Nope is a movie w...