Any given Sunday

HIM

2025

Directed by Justin Tipping

Written by Skip Bronkie, Zack Akers, and Justin Tipping

Spoilers: moderate

Reanimation

WENDELL & WILD

2022

Directed by Henry Selick

Written by Jordan Peele and Henry Selick

Spoilers: moderate

Cowboys and aliens

NOPE

2022

Written and directed by Jordan Peele

Spoilers: high

We have met the enemy, and he is...

US

While both atmospheric and willing to go for broke, neither craft nor courage quite manage to win the day against the plodding unscariness and poorly-used metaphors of Us.  (Also, I apologize for the hiatus.  I was busy.)

2019

Written and directed by Jordan Peele

Spoiler alert: moderate

Well, at least it explains Ben Carson

GET OUT

An above-average horror-thriller with some real shit on its mind.  But just because it's capital-I Important doesn't mean we get to overlook the growing pains for a first-time director who, as far as I know, has never even set foot in this genre before now.

2017

Written and directed by Jordan Peele

With Daniel Kaluuya (Chris Washington), LilRel Howery (Rod Williams), Allison Williams (Rose Armitage), Caleb Landry Jones (Jeremy Armitage), Bradley Whitford (Dean Armitage), and Catherine Keener (Missy Armitage)

Spoiler alert: somewhere between moderate and high