Us review: Jordan Peele’s new horror is bound to become an instant cult
5 years, 9 months ago

Us review: Jordan Peele’s new horror is bound to become an instant cult

The Independent  

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Dir: Jordan Peele; Starring: Lupita Nyong’o, Winston Duke, Evan Alex, Shahadi Wright Joseph, Anna Diop, Elisabeth Moss. Cert 15, 116 mins Doppelgangers abound in Jordan Peele’s weird, creepy and ingenious new horror film. Plan auto-renews until cancelled Try for free Watch Apple TV+ free for 7 days New subscribers only. Watching Us, you feel that same mix of morbid fascination and extreme dread experienced by the girl in the Santa Cruz fairground, dropping her toffee apple in the sand and venturing precisely where she knows she shouldn’t.

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Jordan Peele: Writer, director, subverter of expectations
7 months, 1 week ago

Jordan Peele: Writer, director, subverter of expectations

LA Times  

Jordan Peele, photographed at the Fairmont Century Plaza hotel in Los Angeles on Nov. 13, 2022. “There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it,” Alfred Hitchcock once said — and there may be no filmmaker in today’s Hollywood who is better at cranking up that anticipation than Jordan Peele. As a writer and director, Peele’s …

Us the movie is a terrific, meta frightmare, says Rashid Irani
5 years, 9 months ago

Us the movie is a terrific, meta frightmare, says Rashid Irani

Hindustan Times  

US Direction: Jordan Peele Actors: Lupita Nyong’o, Winston Duke Rating: 4.5 / 5 Us consolidates Jordan Peele’s reputation as one of the more exciting American filmmakers of our time. With Us, the writer-director has crafted another attention-grabbing frightener, a film permeated by a sense of dread not often experienced in the horror genre. Alternately maternal and monstrous, Lupita Nyong’o delivers …

Us movie review: A groundbreaking horror film from Jordan Peele, a worthy follow-up to Get Out
5 years, 9 months ago

Us movie review: A groundbreaking horror film from Jordan Peele, a worthy follow-up to Get Out

Hindustan Times  

Us Director - Jordan Peele Cast - Lupita Nyong’o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker, Shahadi Wright Joseph, Evan Alex Rating - 4.5/5 Us movie review: Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong’o delivers a stunning dual performance in Jordan Peele’s Get Out follow-up. Curiously, despite being a more traditional horror picture, Us, writer-director Jordan Peele’s follow-up to the genre-fluid Get Out …

Us movie review: Jordan Peele's thought-provoking slasher film suffers from an implausible reveal
5 years, 9 months ago

Us movie review: Jordan Peele's thought-provoking slasher film suffers from an implausible reveal

Firstpost  

It’s difficult to talk about Jordan Peele’s new film Us without getting into spoiler territory because the overall quality of the film is largely dependent on what happens in the final fifteen minutes. Peele fully embraces the ‘spooky kids in a horror film’ trope but subverts the cliché at many points, lathering it all with a layer of thought provoking …

Us: The 10 films Jordan Peele gave Lupita Nyong'o to watch in preparation for his new horror movie
5 years, 9 months ago

Us: The 10 films Jordan Peele gave Lupita Nyong'o to watch in preparation for his new horror movie

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Jordan Peele's new film Us has broken a box office record …

Jordan Peele's 'Us' Taps Into Our Deepest Fears
5 years, 9 months ago

Jordan Peele's 'Us' Taps Into Our Deepest Fears

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Jordan Peele ’s work sits on your chest and stays there for a while after you’ve left the theater. In a tweet the Sunday before its nationwide release, Peele clarified that “Us” is “a horror film.” It’s not for the faint of heart. “I think that this movie applies in any version of ‘us versus them,’” Peele …

Us review: Jordan Peele’s new movie targets even more of us than Get Out.
5 years, 9 months ago

Us review: Jordan Peele’s new movie targets even more of us than Get Out.

Slate  

“Who are you?” whispers Adelaide Wilson as her family of four is held hostage at their summer beach house by a family of exact doubles, clad in matching red jumpsuits and armed with extremely sharp-looking golden scissors. The hoarse reply that emerges from her doppelgänger’s throat—“We’re Americans”—is one of many enigmas that stay with you after seeing Us, the new …

Review: In ‘Us,’ Jordan Peele holds a dark mirror to America
5 years, 9 months ago

Review: In ‘Us,’ Jordan Peele holds a dark mirror to America

Associated Press  

Jordan Peele has tightened his grip in “Us,” a less satirical and more slaughterhouse horror parable than the writer-director’s astonishing debut, “Get Out,” that despite its deficiencies will leave all who enter its shadowy world convinced of Peele’s growing command as a singular conjurer of American nightmares. And in “Us,” Peele has produced a terrifying artifact: a sinister ballet of …

Jordan Peele’s horror film Us to release in India on March 29
5 years, 9 months ago

Jordan Peele’s horror film Us to release in India on March 29

India TV News  

Jordan Peele's horror film Us, written and directed by him, is scheduled to release across theatres in India on March 29. Set in the present day, Us from Monkeypaw Productions, stars Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o as Adelaide Wilson, a woman returning to her beachside childhood home with her husband, Gabe, and their two children for an idyllic summer getaway. Haunted …

People Are Already Calling Jordan Peele's 'Us' Movie A 'Horror Masterpiece'
5 years, 10 months ago

People Are Already Calling Jordan Peele's 'Us' Movie A 'Horror Masterpiece'

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Early screenings for Jordan Peele’s “Us” movie have been underway, and people are already praising the horror film, with many calling it a “masterpiece.” “Us,” which hits theaters March 22, had its world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival in Austin on Friday. — joscanton March 9, 2019 Many also celebrated Peele for having black journalists screen …

Review: The evil is ‘Us’ in Jordan Peele’s smart, relentlessly scary follow-up to ‘Get Out’
5 years, 10 months ago

Review: The evil is ‘Us’ in Jordan Peele’s smart, relentlessly scary follow-up to ‘Get Out’

LA Times  

Film Critic At the beginning of “Us,” Jordan Peele’s latest assault on your nerves and expectations, we learn that thousands of miles of empty tunnels — abandoned train routes, mine shafts and the like — run beneath the continental United States. There’s a different kind of sunken place in “Us,” but the less said about it the better, and not …

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