‘The Get Out’ Review: Russell Crowe and a Game Supporting Cast Cannot Save Derrick Borte’s Tonally Ambitious Crime Comedy

‘The Get Out’ Review: Russell Crowe and a Game Supporting Cast Cannot Save Derrick Borte’s Tonally Ambitious Crime Comedy

The canon of popular American movies this side of the millennium counts several crime comedies in its ranks, among them Steven Soderbergh’s “Ocean’s” trilogy, David O. Russell’s “American Hustle” and Shane Black’s “The Nice Guys.” Ten years on, that last film’s star, Russell Crowe, headlines Derrick Borte’s “The Get Out” — a largely underwhelming reminder of the potential thematic richness of this type of cinema, and of how difficult it is to su…