Kicking off Slate's yearly critical confab about the year in cinema with a request: Please tell me why I'm wrong about Nope!
dangled the promise it would be the smartest and most daring movie I’d see all year. But for all the clever design and skillful editing of those climactic chase sequences, I walked out unclear on how the suspense of the final act was meant to resolve the crisscrossing thematic threads so intricately woven into the first half.
Are Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer’s hustling sibling filmmakers wrong or right to move heaven and earth to capture what footage they do of that marvelously imagined flying people eater? Have they exited the cycle of trauma their show-business-adjacent family has been trapped in for generations, or only displaced it onto a new extraterrestrial victim? For that matter—to get in the weeds about my lasting puzzlement—what was that floating tennis shoe in the flashback all about?? After two...
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