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

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

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

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.

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...

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

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

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