Peculiarly shaped mirrors, Jordan Peele’s movies harness genre conventions, in varying degrees of success, to package ideological inquiries in exciting narrative vehicles where collective fears and biases are projected.
To look into his intellectually adventurous pop confections means to confront those scary reflections while being utterly entertained. “Nope,” the writer-director’s latest broad-appealing, but never less than intriguing production, unfurls as a mostly clever potpourri of science fiction influences and diverse references dealing with meetings between humans and the unknown.
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