Jordan Peele’s third feature is a mind-bending mash-up of Westerns, sci-fi, horror, and Hollywood history.
Here’s why the Oscars were wrong to ignore it.
It helps that the cast is top-tier.Nopereunites Peele withGet OutstarDaniel Kaluuyaas Otis “O.J.”
Daniel Kaluuya in ‘Nope’.Universal Pictures
Opposite Kaluuya isKeke Palmer, finally in a part worthy of her dynamite charisma as O.J.
’s sister Emerald “Em” Haywood.
With their father (Keith David) recently dead from a strange accident, O.J.
Jordan Peele on the set of ‘Nope.'.Glen Wilson/Universal Pictures
and Em are trying to maintain the family business of handling horses for Hollywood productions.
That is strange since Peele has only upped his artistic game with each film.
The film also takes more than one viewing to fully appreciate.
Why history will remember it better than the Academy did:Peele is clearly a director who matters.
Such seems to be the fate ofNope.
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