Let’s call a spade a spade here: “Nope” is not connecting with its audience. If it were then it would have some legs et the box-office, which it doesn’t.
People were saying Jordan Peele’s film would be at $100 million domestically by now, but it likely won’t even reach that mark by Sunday.
Peele’s ambitious sci-fi epic is project to make around $7-8 million this weekend, its third week of release. Peele’s previous films, “Get Out” and “Us,” managed to gross $175 million total each.
Also, for the last time, I’m not hating on this film or its filmmaker, I thought Peele’s first two films were one of the best American efforts of their respective years. The fact of the matter is that “Nope,” for all the risk-taking and artful mainstream ambition it has, just didn’t work.
It’s a fine-as-it-goes blockbuster, filled with incoherent pacing, that never truly bores you, but doesn’t enthrall you either. Many critics got it wrong by giving this film a pass. It turns out, Peele can do some wrong but I still very much look forward to what he does next.
Criterion's December lineup has some great additions to the library, but the title that jumped out at me is Werner Herzog's "Grizzly Man," which officially joins the Collection on December 8.