Jordan Peele’s Get Out made over $30 million in its first weekend, and garnered an extremely rare 100% on Rotten Tomatoes with over 100 reviews. Critics were floored, audiences were stunned but The National Review‘s Armond White didn’t see what they saw.
“The horror side of the story shows writer-director Jordan Peele…imitating the slave-era terror of 12 Years a Slave,” White wrote in the first negative review of the film, knocking it’s “fresh” percentage on RT to 99%. “Peele’s plot jacks up that film’s existential paranoia, a modern response to the helplessness of enslavement that politically naïve kids now dread as a modern American reality.” Read more…
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