Jordan Peele returns with another stunning achievement in the horror genre, Joe Morgenstern says, this time about a vacationing family accosted by their doppelgängers
Don’t come to me for a searching exegesis of Jordan Peele’s “Us,” a polytonal slasher saga with more undertones, overtones, intricate themes, elusive mysteries and scary images than anyone could absorb in a single viewing.
All I can tell you for now is that it’s compulsory seeing for everyone who loves the horror genre, the movie medium and the notion of saying sage things about contemporary life without straying from entertainment’s twisty path. The film is being marketed as having come “from the mind of Jordan Peele,” a phrase that might sound pretentious for a guy who has made only one previous feature. But that debut,...
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