Us
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Husband and wife Gabe and Adelaide Wilson take their kids to their beach house expecting to unplug and unwind with friends. But as night descends, their serenity turns to tension and chaos when some shocking visitors arrive uninvited.
What critics thought
Jordan Peele's follow-up to Get Out landed with critics as a genuine achievement in horror — formally ambitious, thematically dense, and genuinely terrifying — but the audience reaction was notably cooler, exposing a fault line between critical enthusiasm and popular satisfaction. The central debate isn't whether the film is scary or visually striking, but whether its thematic machinery about class, race, and American identity coheres or collapses under its own weight.
“Us is another thrilling exploration of the past and oppression this country is still too afraid to bring up. Peele wants us to talk, and he's given audiences the material to think, to feel our way through some of the darker sides of the human condition and the American experience.”
Monica Castillo·RogerEbert.com
“a fiercely scary movie whose meaning is up for grabs”
John DeFore·The Hollywood Reporter
“Peele goes even deeper into the conflicted territory of class and race and privilege; he also ponders the traits that make us most human. But this time, he's got so many ideas he can barely corral them, let alone connect them. He overthinks himself into a corner, and we're stuck there with him.”
Stephanie Zacharek·Time
“Us is a horror film—though saying so is like offering a reminder that The Godfather is a gangster film or that 2001: A Space Odyssey is science fiction. Genre is irrelevant to the merits of a film, whether its conventions are followed or defied; what matters is that Peele cites the tropes and precedents of horror in order to deeply root his film in the terrain of pop culture—and then to pull up those roots.”
Richard Brody·The New Yorker
Genres
Horror, Mystery
Cast & Crew
DirectorJordan Peele
StarringLupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker, Shahadi Wright Joseph
ComposerMichael Abels
Us
Husband and wife Gabe and Adelaide Wilson take their kids to their beach house expecting to unplug and unwind with friends. But as night descends, their serenity turns to tension and chaos when some shocking visitors arrive uninvited.
What critics thought
Jordan Peele's follow-up to Get Out landed with critics as a genuine achievement in horror — formally ambitious, thematically dense, and genuinely terrifying — but the audience reaction was notably cooler, exposing a fault line between critical enthusiasm and popular satisfaction. The central debate isn't whether the film is scary or visually striking, but whether its thematic machinery about class, race, and American identity coheres or collapses under its own weight.
“Us is another thrilling exploration of the past and oppression this country is still too afraid to bring up. Peele wants us to talk, and he's given audiences the material to think, to feel our way through some of the darker sides of the human condition and the American experience.”
Monica Castillo·RogerEbert.com
“a fiercely scary movie whose meaning is up for grabs”
John DeFore·The Hollywood Reporter
“Peele goes even deeper into the conflicted territory of class and race and privilege; he also ponders the traits that make us most human. But this time, he's got so many ideas he can barely corral them, let alone connect them. He overthinks himself into a corner, and we're stuck there with him.”
Stephanie Zacharek·Time
“Us is a horror film—though saying so is like offering a reminder that The Godfather is a gangster film or that 2001: A Space Odyssey is science fiction. Genre is irrelevant to the merits of a film, whether its conventions are followed or defied; what matters is that Peele cites the tropes and precedents of horror in order to deeply root his film in the terrain of pop culture—and then to pull up those roots.”
Richard Brody·The New Yorker
Genres
Horror, Mystery
Cast & Crew
DirectorJordan Peele
StarringLupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker, Shahadi Wright Joseph
ComposerMichael Abels
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