As a director, Jordan Peele makes original, thematically complex horror ( Get Out , Us , Nope ). As a producer, on titles like Candyman and Monkey Man , he shepherds films that, while not always overtly horror, are unsettling, packed with big ideas and presented with visual dazzle. Him is about the loudest example yet, with a million thoughts, directed to within an inch of its life. It’s a whole lotta movie. Sometimes almost too much, but never less than riveting.

Since childhood, when his dad shoved him firmly in that direction, Cameron ‘Cam’ Cade (Tyriq Withers) has wanted to play football. Not just play, but be the greatest of all time. Just when his big break seems inevitable, with a pick for the San Antonio Saviors, Cade is attacked, sustaining a brain injury. H

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