Nope Jordan Peele’s “Thrilling and Strange” Is This Generation’s Independence Day

Early reviews for Jordan Peele’s third film, Nopeare in.

get out, We — a heck of a pair of acts to follow, and it looks like evil sci-fi satire maestro Jordan Peele nailed it. While in the UK we will have to wait another full three weeks to catch the 43-year-old UFO thriller (the release date here is August 12, for reasons known only to the cosmos), some lucky critics and influencers across the pond have already had it beaming in their eyes. So what’s the verdict?

Well, if you’ve seen Peele’s broader oeuvre, whether it’s those aforementioned genre satires with a sociopolitical twist or even his long-running sketch show Key and Peele, you know the absolute rule when it comes to his work: expect the unexpected. So yeah, while most early viewers are keeping schtum on the details – lest those evil men in black snag them in the middle of the night for some rigorous interrogation – we know this one won’t be what everyone thinks. For the majority.

Here’s what the critics are saying Nope.

It’s a big throwback to summer alien movies

Good news, independence day fans (we are dozens!) — Nope marks a welcome revival of this classic Hollywood blockbuster subgenre, the alien invasion film

It’s Peele via Spielberg

Peele’s works have always had something of a Close Encounters Where Jaws about them, with slow-building horror and sociopolitical intelligence. But with Nope, Peele fills up on Spielberg