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Us

2019

Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker ...

5.7

21,686

Thriller. Horror Haunted by an unexplainable and unresolved trauma from her past and compounded by a string of eerie coincidences, Adelaide feels her paranoia elevate to high-alert as she grows increasingly certain that something bad is going to befall her family. After spending a tense beach day with their friends, the Tylers (Emmy winner Elisabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker, Cali Sheldon, Noelle Sheldon), Adelaide and her family return to their vacation ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"Peele uses the metaphor of the divided self to explore what lies beneath contemporary America, its double consciousness, its identity, sins and terrors."
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Nyong’o delivers one of the great performances in horror movie history (...) [She is] right up there with Sissy Spacek in 'Carrie' and Jack Nicholson in 'The Shining' (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Ann Hornaday The Washington Post	"[It] gave me real-life nightmares, a testament to Peele's ability to illuminate the deepest and most dangerous shadow material of the American Dream (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"
		Brandon Katz The New York Observer	"Thanks to a smart script and great performances from the main cast-notably a prowess-unlocked Lupita Nyong'o and a wonderfully loose Winston Duke-Us is both laugh out loud hilarious and disturbingly eerie all at one"
		Brian Truitt USA Today	"Peele is this generation's Hitchcock, for sure, but also a true American original with introspective themes in hand and suspense to spare (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"[A] satire of the American dream, with Lupita Nyong’o delivering a magnificent performance (...) She radiates a force-field of pure defiance (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Justin Chang Los Angeles Times	"A 'tour de force' of comic tension and visceral release, a movie that weaponizes our chuckles against us and reminds us that laughing, screaming and thinking are not mutually exclusive pleasures."
		Emily Yoshida Vulture	"[It] feels like something meant to be watched over and over until the tape wears down, and we graft our own meaning and nightmares onto it."
		Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"This is an unforgettable dance with the devil (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"
		Monica Castillo rogerebert.com	"[A] thrilling exploration of the past and oppression this country (...) [Peele] has given audiences the material to think, to feel our way through some of the darker sides of the human condition (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"
		Yolanda Machado The Wrap	"It's where Peele cements his place as one of the best horror creators of our time, knowing that life's true horror stems from what humans are capable of doing to each other."
		Film School Rejects	"Peele has quickly become the horror genre’s equivalent of event cinema; it’s going to be fun watching general audiences discuss and digest this one for months to come."
		Trace Thurman Bloody Disgusting	"A superb sophomore outing for Peele. Blending humor and scares with some amazing actors and fantastically tense home invasion set pieces, it comes strongly recommended (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		David Crow Den of Geek	"[It] is more horrific and ambitious than 'Get Out' and one of the most evocative horror movies in memory.…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Ryan Oliver The Playlist	"[It] will be looked back in retrospect as prophetic. As it stands now, it’s fascinating, a little maddening, and entertaining."
		Peter Debruge Variety	"This sinister domain offers a visual allegory for the darker aspects of our own socialization — which, if the film were more successful in its final stretch, would force us to confront the monsters within each of us."
		John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"An often terrifying thriller (...) Clearly the work of an ambitious writer/director (...) It offers twists and ironies and false endings galore — along with more laughs than [Peele's debut film]."
		Richard Whittaker Austin Chronicle	"'Us' is excellence of execution – or rather, the best version imaginable of a script that feels underdone, and occasionally overwrought (...) A step forward for Peele the filmmaker, and a step back for Peele the storyteller."
		Eric Kohn IndieWire	"It gives audiences exactly what they want by delivering what they least expect (...) The relentless pace won’t let you catch your breath (...) [It has] visual sophistication to spare"
		Randall Colburn AV Club	"[It] is thrilling, creepy, and kind of a mess (...) As a horror movie, it’s deeply satisfying (...) 'Us' is something of a frustrating watch, a visual and technical marvel that just doesn’t seem to know what it is"

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