All year long, one film has sat immovably on top of my most anticipated list for 2022. Nope, Jordan Peele’s third instalment in his loose horror trilogy, boasts a dynamite cast (Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Steven Yeun) and a director on the hottest of hot streaks.
Peele’s last two films – the daring, really-should-have-won-best-picture thriller-satire Get Out and its similarly minded follow up Us (for which Lupita Nyong’o really, really should have won the best actress Oscar) – marked him out as the most exciting film-maker of the moment, someone who could deliver clever, state-of-the-nation stories in a moreish mainstream coating.
