Get Out

A young Black man visits his white girlfriend's family upstate for the weekend; her parents are almost aggressively welcoming, and he reads it, reasonably, as liberal discomfort with the interracial relationship. Jordan Peele builds the film as a social thriller that works through accumulation — oddities that are each individually dismissible, stacking at a rate the audience clocks before the protagonist can act on them. The horror register arrives late and deliberately, after the film has established its comedy of manners so precisely that the turn feels earned rather than imported. Daniel Kaluuya carries nearly every scene, and his performance is mostly about what Chris chooses not to say.