The year’s surprise smash hit, with a current US box-office gross of $111-million – Universal Pictures‘ suspense thriller “Get Out” is also shaping up as 2017’s best-reviewed film to date.
(Watch Get Out’ TV spots at http://youtu.be/ogzWzrTAvzg and http://youtu.be/J_mzdtmYUQk.) The film currently boasts a “99 percent Fresh” rating on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, which is higher than any movie released so far this year.
Universal Pictures’ “Get Out,” a new horror-thriller
about race relations, rode critical raves to a smashing box office
debut at No.1 for the February 24 – 27 weekend, according to Variety.
The low-budget film was the weekend’s top-grossing domestic release,
earning $30.5 million, and propelling its director and writer Jordan Peele
atop Hollywood’s A-list. The film, which centers on a black man who
discovers that his girlfriend’s liberal, lily-white hometown is guarding
a sinister secret.