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The horror film doesn't quite live up to "Get Out," but it's a smart take on class division. Plus, it's quite thrilling.

It couldn’t have been easy to follow up Get Out, arguably the best horror film of 2017, with another horror film. Expectations are mighty high and all eye...

His follow-up to “Get Out” also does us all a great service by handing the talented Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o a genuine starring role.

In Jordan Peele’s new movie and the latest Stephen King adaptation, the real bump in the night might be decades of suppressed trauma. Spoilers ahead!

Jordan Peele’s “Us” begins so spectacularly well, and sustains its game of doubles so cleverly for most of its two hours, it’s an unusual sort of let...

★★★★★ Hot from 2017 hit Get Out, comedian-turned-director Jordan Peele is back in the horror playhouse, confirming his preternatural, studied mast...

Exciting? Sure. Unique? Without a doubt. Frustrating? Unfortunately.

“Us” is a jumble of ideas, and they aren’t clear ideas. People…

Jordan Peele's second film, Us, is more horrific and ambitious than Get Out and one of the most evocative horror movies in memory.

The director's new meta-horror opus is two hours of blood-spraying, body-snatching multiplex fun.

Return of the repressed: Jordan Peele's latest throws the audience into a house of mirrors

With Us, Jordan Peele proves that the signature blend of horror, humor, and political commentary in Get Out was definitely not a fluke. Our review.

Peele doubles down on his genre love with a flawed but full-bore frightener, ripe for debate. Nyong’o is incendiary.

Jordan Peele's new movie highlights a society untethered from faith, comprised of humans entirely self-consumed and detached from one another.

Jordan Peele follows 'Get Out' with 'Us,' a horror film starring Lupita Nyong'o in which the monsters look just like the heroes.

Peele’s second outing as writer-director gives audiences exactly what they want by delivering what they least expect.

A family finds itself stalked by dopplegangers in Jordan Peele's horror movie "Us.'

Us registers as another identity-dismembering horror movie.

At the beginning of “Us,” Jordan Peele’s latest assault on your nerves and expectations, we learn that thousands of miles of empty tunnels — abandone...

Jordan Peele’s horror film “Us,” the follow-up to “Get Out,” starts out as a typical horror film and evolves into something much more.

The director’s indictment of racial prejudice in “Get Out” was blistering stuff, but “Us” travels further and deeper, sparing nobody, regardless of...

It’s us versus them — who are also us — in Jordan Peele’s new horror movie. And if his sophomore effort doesn’t quite reach the masterful heights o...

The film’s underground characters and those behind bars share many conditions; the film in effect dramatizes the issues surrounding mass incarceration.

We’re witnesses the development of a genre maestro the new shot-calling production studio he heads.

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 audienc...

“Us” isn’t the scintillating, scary satiric indictment of racism in America that “Get Out” was. So by that measure, it’s a disappointment. But Jo...

New mesmerizing mindbender 'Us' from writer-director-producer Jordan Peele, also carries the weight of expectation.

Jordan Peele follows up Oscar-winner Get Out with an effective chiller about an all-American family

Whenever a friend is kind enough to suggest psychoanalysis, the robotic answer is this. I know there’s something monstrous lurking in the subconscious sewe...

Writer-director Peele's follow-up to Get Out is a change of pace: murkier, harder to digest and less likely to be nominated for multiple Oscars.

The actor’s tremendous work in Jordan Peele’s film mines the relationship between two doppelgängers to frightening, allegorical effect.

The 'Get Out' director’s new film is more complicated, more outrageous, and, in a lot of ways, more daringly funny and topical than its predecessor.

When something is more than the sum of its parts, that is a form of achievement. Usually, if something is no more than the sum of its parts, that is consider...

The fertile mind of comedian-turned-master-of-horror Jordan Peele develops a genuinely thrilling, heart-in-the-throat-scary horror movie in Us

Like his previous film, Get Out, it’s a social exploration of America.

This powerful follow-up to "Get Out" confirms Peele's gifts as a genre filmmaker who's not afraid of social commentary

The writer-director's follow-up to "Get Out" looks stunning, but he overthinks himself into a corner

A review of Jordan Peele’s ’Us,’ a film chock full of genuine scares and award-worthy performances.

Jordan Peele's horror film 'Us' is a worthy follow-up to 'Get Out' that reveals a deeper, more enigmatic effort from this generation's Hitchcock.

The film gives us plenty to unpack—but you’re better off just trying to enjoy it.

Comedian-turned-horror-maestro Jordan Peele veers farther into the dark of America's collective id, implicating us as our own worst enemies.

Our ugliest history is coming for us.

Lupita Nyong’o is astounding in the director’s distinct follow-up to Get Out.

The director’s second feature isn’t as trim or impish in its satire as his marvelous debut, but it’s the most inspiring kind of miss.

Us is a volatile, vicious, and boldly expressive horror movie of the loudest volume, proving Jordan Peele to be one of the most invigorating directors around.