Get Out
Universal Pictures | Release Date: February 24, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
85
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 48 Critic Reviews
Positive:
47
Mixed:
1
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
The GuardianPeter BradshawMar 20, 2017
Get Out is very creepy, very funny and as pitiless as a surgeon’s scalpel. Read full review
100
Screen DailyJohn HazeltonFeb 27, 2017
Retro horror and racial tension mix to surprisingly entertaining effect in Get Out. Read full review
100
TimeStephanie ZacharekFeb 23, 2017
Peele succeeds where sometimes even more experienced filmmakers fail: He’s made an agile entertainment whose social and cultural observations are woven so tightly into the fabric that you’re laughing even as you’re thinking, and vice-versa. Read full review
100
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinFeb 23, 2017
Get Out is a ludicrous paranoid fantasy, but that doesn’t mean it’s not alive in the unconscious. Having it out there in so delightful a form helps us laugh at it together — and maybe later, when we’ve thought it over, shudder. Read full review
100
The New YorkerRichard BrodyFeb 22, 2017
Peele’s perfectly tuned cast and deft camera work unleash his uproarious humor along with his political fury; with his first film, he’s already an American Buñuel Read full review
100
VarietyPeter DebrugeJan 24, 2017
Blending race-savvy satire with horror to especially potent effect, this bombshell social critique from first-time director Jordan Peele proves positively fearless — which is not at all the same thing as scareless. Read full review
92
The VergeTasha RobinsonFeb 26, 2017
Like so much of Key & Peele’s comedy, Get Out is refreshing in its naked, frank aggression about confronting racial issues, with comedy, drama, and sharp, unsparing insight. Read full review
91
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerMar 10, 2017
What makes Get Out more than just a slam-bang scarefest is that, in its own darkly satiric way, it is also a movie about racial paranoia that captures the zeitgeist in ways that many more “prestigious” movies don’t. Read full review
91
MTV NewsAmy NicholsonFeb 26, 2017
Peele is so attuned to the tiny ways race sneaks into conversations that we hear it in every line. Our suspicions are so heightened, we start to second-guess our own senses. Read full review
91
The PlaylistKimber MyersFeb 23, 2017
Movies with this serious a message about race are rarely fun to watch, but Peele has a perfect handle on tone, knowing just when to lean toward menacing, eerie or sharply funny and when to tip things in another direction. Read full review
90
SlateAisha HarrisFeb 23, 2017
This is the essence of Get Out, which only grows more darkly relevant as the main story gets going, masterfully unfurling all of the real-life anxieties of Existing While Black while simultaneously mining that situation for all its twisted absurdity. Read full review
90
The New York TimesManohla DargisFeb 23, 2017
Part of what makes Get Out both exciting and genuinely unsettling is how real life keeps asserting itself, scene after scene. Read full review
90
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternFeb 23, 2017
Get Out starts with a great title and a promising idea — a black man’s fear as he walks at night down a street in an affluent white suburb. Then it delivers on that promise with explosive brilliance. Read full review
90
TheWrapAlonso DuraldeFeb 22, 2017
Jordan Peele has made an extraordinary leap in genre here, and he’s also crafted a horror film that has more blistering observations about race than half a dozen well-intentioned Oscar-bait dramas. Read full review
90
Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlFeb 22, 2017
Get Out is fully surprising in both concept and craft, with the scares never coming just when you expect them and the secrets more audacious than you might be guessing. Read full review
90
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeJan 24, 2017
When the film moves out of the paranoiac realm and into action, the violence is deeply satisfying, the twists delightful. Read full review
88
Rolling StonePeter TraversFeb 23, 2017
A jolt-a-minute horroshow laced with racial tension and stinging satirical wit. Read full review
88
Washington PostAnn HornadayFeb 23, 2017
Like all great movies, Get Out faithfully obeys the conventions of its genre — in this case horror films shot through with brutal wit and sharp-eyed allegory — while getting at profound psychic and political realities. The shocks and the laughs are thoroughly entertaining, but it’s the truth of Get Out that’s so real. Read full review
88
Boston GlobePeter KeoughFeb 23, 2017
It is not only the best horror film since “Under the Skin” (2013), but a subversive and often hilarious commentary on race as well. Read full review
88
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsFeb 23, 2017
It's a little of everything: unnerving, funny in just the right way and at the right times, serious about its observations and perspectives on racial animus, straight-up populist when it comes to an increasingly (but not sadistically) violent climax. That's entertainment! Read full review
88
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperFeb 22, 2017
The real star of the film is writer-director Jordan Peele, who has created a work that addresses the myriad levels of racism, pays homage to some great horror films, carves out its own creative path, has a distinctive visual style — and is flat-out funny as well. Read full review
88
Movie NationRoger MooreFeb 22, 2017
Sketch-comedy whiz Jordan Peele of TV’s ”Key and Peele” and “Keanu” has cooked up the smartest horror movie in ages, an edge-of-your-seat thriller that is entertaining and creepily enlightening at the same time. Read full review
83
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Feb 22, 2017
Wildly entertaining. Read full review
83
ConsequenceDominick Suzanne-MayerJan 25, 2017
Peele is a talented director of action as well as horror, and Get Out is always far from boring even in its more familiar scenes. Read full review
83
The Film StageJohn FinkJan 24, 2017
Writer-director Jordan Peele has smartly created a horror comedy that doesn’t feel like a series of sketches from his show: the whole thing is a single, coherent episode and individual scenes are masterfully and subtly crafted with tonal shifts that work well. Read full review
80
The TelegraphTim RobeyMar 20, 2017
The movie rattles with provocations. Read full review
80
Total FilmJordan FarleyMar 20, 2017
It lacks the subtlety of Night of the Living Dead, but deftly balances laughs and bloody thrills. Read full review
80
EmpireOlly RichardsMar 20, 2017
To call it the most important movie of the year so far makes it sound possibly rather worthy. That’s not true at all. Get Out is a comment on a highly complex situation that’s also a total blast. Read full review
80
CineVueChristopher MachellMar 15, 2017
Peele's blistering debut is a timely and powerful satire of modern prejudice as much as it is a taut, gripping exercise in horror cinema. Read full review
80
NPRBob MondelloFeb 24, 2017
As a writer and a remarkably accomplished first-time director, Peele layers other notions on top as he's inverting those — about servitude, about social privilege, about law enforcement and "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner" - style liberals. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangFeb 23, 2017
This is surely the nerviest, most confrontational treatment of race in America to emerge from a major studio in years, and it brilliantly fulfills the duty of both its chosen genres — the horror-thriller and the social satire — to meaningfully reflect a culture’s latent fears and anxieties. Read full review
80
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzFeb 23, 2017
A scathing examination of race, a take down of phony liberal sympathies that sticks it to racists of every stripe. Read full review
80
We Got This CoveredMatt DonatoFeb 23, 2017
Get Out marries racial satire with a terrifying finale, one that tears down blinders that some may have kept conveniently in place. Don’t listen to those who say horror movies are defined by physical scares. Plots based on real-life fears typically make for the most horrifying scenarios. Read full review
80
New York Daily NewsJordon HoffmanFeb 22, 2017
It's very funny at times, but it isn't a comedy. It is that very rare of beasts: a new and original motion picture. Read full review
80
ScreenCrushMatt SingerJan 27, 2017
It does what all great horror movies do: turn real-world anxieties into the stuff of nightmares. Read full review
78
Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenFeb 22, 2017
Not only does this genre exercise deliver the little jolts and inside laughs that keep modern horror fans pleased, Get Out is also one of the smartest, funniest, and most socially astute films to come around in a while. Read full review
75
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliFeb 23, 2017
The R, however, isn’t for the usual “extreme gore” of a slasher movie. Instead, it’s mainly for profanity. Get Out has only a little blood and viscera; the approach of writer/first time director Jordan Peele is to approach the more stomach-churning aspects of his production with tact. Read full review
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)David BerryFeb 23, 2017
This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don’t address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that’s to fit in or to preserve our self-image. It’s not what we’re not saying, but how we’re not saying it. Read full review
75
USA TodayBrian TruittFeb 23, 2017
As funny and bitingly satirical as one would expect from his Key & Peele sketches. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineKeith WatsonFeb 23, 2017
Throughout Get Out, Jordan Peele incisively probes the connection between liberal racism and good old-fashioned white supremacy. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleFeb 23, 2017
Get Out reveals an underlying unease. It diffuses tension, even as it points to its source. It may be somewhat rough and unrefined and even ill-considered in some of its particulars. Yet it may stand as a kind of pop culture document of this historical moment, a moment that’s not nearly as funny as this movie. Read full review
75
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallFeb 23, 2017
Get Out loses its nerve winding down but it's a rare horror flick not wasting all its brains on splatter. Read full review
75
The Seattle TimesMoira MacdonaldFeb 22, 2017
Get Out will scare you, make you laugh and perhaps make you uncomfortable. It’s supposed to. Read full review
75
New York PostKyle SmithFeb 22, 2017
It’s Peele’s first film, but it has none of the rough edges or self-indulgence you’d expect from a rookie. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyFeb 22, 2017
Peele is undeniably a born filmmaker with big ambitions and an even bigger set of balls. He’s made a horror movie whose biggest jolts have nothing to do with blood or bodies, but rather with big ideas. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoJan 24, 2017
Get Out feels fresh and sharp in a way that studio horror movies almost never do. It is both unsettling and hysterical, often in the same moment, and it is totally unafraid to call people on their racist bullshit. Read full review
67
IndieWireDavid EhrlichJan 24, 2017
If Get Out isn’t half as scary as the ideas that inspired it, Jordan Peele’s directorial debut is almost certain to be the boldest — and most important — studio genre release of the year. What it lacks in fear, it nearly makes up for in fearlessness. Read full review
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