“Us” offers no easy answers, but indicts us all.

| Original Score: A | Oct 13, 2023

It's one thing for a movie to humble you by leaving you unsure about yourself and your place in the world; it's another for it to leave you wondering what, exactly, a filmmaker is trying to use his formidable verbal and visual vocabulary to say.

| Dec 10, 2019

Peele develops a genuinely thrilling, heart-in-the-throat-scary horror picture.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 10, 2019

Every element in this film serves a purpose and is set up like a chess move, from the soundtrack to the detailed production values. (Be sure to check out the old VHS tapes in a flashback sequence).

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 10, 2019

I love the performances, but I'm just not super sold on the script, to be honest... I'm really ready for [Jordan Peele] to be his own voice now.

| Sep 24, 2019

A sharp, often funny meditation on the terrifying power of human connection.

| Sep 10, 2019

...[A]ll the elements of the production work together to create an atmospheric menace that occupies a breathless two-thirds of the high-intensity 116-minute running time.

| May 10, 2019

Us is more sensory experience than thinkpiece.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 21, 2019

Us revolves around an allegory that's more elastic and resistant to parsing than megahit Get Out.

| Apr 19, 2019

Peele seems to lay bare the tremendous anxiety among the members of this family to maintain "respectability," that odious burden so essential to racism's armature.

| Mar 29, 2019

The real genius at work in Us is Nyong'o, who anchors the story with underlying rage as well as the protective qualities usually reserved for male leads.

| Mar 28, 2019

If Get Out was a dagger, Us is a storm cloud.The new picture is also, in some ways, more assured than Get Out in the way it delivers traditional but effective genre pleasures.

| Mar 28, 2019

... it achieves an insidious, lingering effect that's rarer in the horror genre.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 28, 2019

Even as the central characters are enveloped by doom, Peele provides a haunting image of a black family that is both unsuspecting and frighteningly unfuckwithable.

| Mar 28, 2019

With his second feature, Peele completely obliterates the concept of a sophomore slump, debuting what will go down as the first true, soon-to-be-iconic horror classic that we've seen in many, many years.

| Mar 28, 2019

For all its unevenness and confusion, cannot be dismissed. Something genuinely urgent seems to be happening, especially in the performances by Nyong'o and, to a lesser extent, Moss.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 27, 2019

The joy of it, what makes the film a severe accomplishment, is that it can be a fun ride no matter how overstuffed. But only if, ignoring the film's prompts to mean more, you let it.

| Mar 26, 2019

Ambition in the horror genre can be a good thing, but the overreach in this movie detracts from both the horror and the ambition. Having said that, Peele shows a marked advance in filmmaking skills here and, in her dual role, Nyong'o is ferociously good.

| Original Score: B | Mar 25, 2019

This film, unlike its predecessor, isn't perfect. But it is a richly intriguing riot of imagery and ideas that demands to be rewatched again and again.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 24, 2019

Fearsomely entertaining, consistently thought-provoking and occasionally bloody scary.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 24, 2019