The script is brilliant, with layer upon layer of nuance and subtle connections. Jordan Peele’s directorial debut is a riff on Ira Levin’s 1972 novel The Stepford Wives, but with a new twist: just as he often did in the well-loved Comedy Central sketch show Key & Peele, he draws on familiar genre beats, then injects racial tensions. With that in mind, here are my favorites from 2017: Courtesy of Universal Studios Get Out Personally, I’m a big fan of ambition, innovation, daring, and beauty in movies, and a film that tries something radical and mostly succeeds is always going to get a higher rating from me than a film that does something conventional and predictable, even if it does it perfectly. Every year-end best-of list is subjective, and this one is too. For critics, it’s also a rare chance to remind themselves and their readers why they most likely got into this industry - to see amazing movies, to think about them in depth, and to try to call more attention to the industry’s most exceptional, affecting, and sometimes overlooked work. It’s like a nesting instinct - a drive to put things in order, to organize the world into something comfortable and manageable and orderly by assembling the best of everything in one place. The year-end list-making urge is powerful.
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