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▶ RELEASED 12 AUGUST
15 | 135 minutes
▶ Director Jordan Peele
▶ Cast Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Steven Yeun, Michael Wincott, Brandon Perea, Keith David
status of a Jordan Peele film has gone from intriguing outlier () to major talking point () to full-blown cultural phenomenon. For a comparable filmic trajectory, you have to go back to the glorious early run M Night Shyamalan enjoyed at the start of his career:, hit its stride with and breasted the tape with . (You could also cite Quentin Tarantino’s meteoric rise from to , had not the second movie in his triptych, , been directed by somebody else.)
