
31 January 2023
Get Out (2017)
Just named one of the top 100 films of all time in Sight & Sound’s once-a-decade critics’ poll, Get Out follows a young African-American who visits his white girlfriend’s parents for the weekend, where his simmering uneasiness about their reception of him reaches a boiling point.
For Get Out, Jordan Peele became the first African American to win the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, as well as the first African American to be nominated for producing, writing and directing in the same year. Get Out went on to win over 150 awards internationally.
As Chris Washington, Daniel Kaluuya was nominated for an Oscar and BAFTA for Best Actor, with Lil Rel Howery (Judas and the Black Messiah) taking home the MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance as Rod. Critics Choice nominee Allison Williams (Girls), Emmy winner Bradley Whitford (The Handmaid’s Tale), Oscar nominees Catherine Keener (Being John Malkovich) and LaKeith Stanfeild (Judas and the Black Messiah), Critics Choice Super nominee Caleb Landry Jones (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) and Emmy nominee Stephen Root (Barry) co-star.
Get Out has a 98% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes, where the critics’ consensus calls it “funny, scary and thought-provoking.”
Also look out for Peele’s similarly acclaimed horror, Us, starring Lupita Nyong’o, also from 26 January 2023 on Showmax.
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