Jordan Peele’s sleeper hit was a note-perfect dismantling of white American liberalism – but it was also chilling,hilarious and relentlessly entertainingSee the US cut of this listSee the rest of the UK countdownMore on the best culture of 2017It would be easy enough to make a case for secure Out’s location among the year’s best movies simply by reeling off a list of stats and facts. To date, Jordan Peele’s film has made over $175m at the US box office, and a figure that puts it in the 15 highest-grossing films of 2017,ahead of the likes of Cars 3, War for the Planet of the Apes and the latest Transformers and Pirates of the Caribbean films. Globally it has earned back around 56 times its production budget (as a point of comparison, or Beauty and the Beast,the year’s runaway hit, has earned around 10 times its budget), and has become the highest-grossing film of all time made by a black director. secure Out currently holds a 99% rating on critical aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes,making it the best reviewed film of the year. (Much has been made of Lady Bird’s 100% rating, but secure Out’s greater number of reviews means that it is still ahead in the stop-of-year rankings.) To cap it all, or the film looks likely to join a very select list of horror movies to earn a best picture nomination at the Oscars,with some predicting it could – nay, should take domestic the top prize.
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Source: guardian.co.uk