Jordan Peele’s Us has been described by top critics as “A colossal cinematic achievement”. Jordan puts the scarily brilliant Lupita Nyong'o in the driver’s seat, supported by the excellent Winston Duke, Evan Alex, Shahadi Wright Joseph, Tim Heidecker, and Elisabeth Moss to give audiences the most hauntingly complex 121 minutes.The 2019 psychological horror, written and directed by Academy Award winner Jordan Peele, follows the story of Adelaide Wilson (Lupita) and her family as they set off on their family vacation.
During the course of their holiday, the family is attacked by a menacing group of seemingly their own doppelgängers, known as the "Tethered".
Rest assured, everything is not as it seems.Due to be broadcast on BBC One this Friday night (April 4), Jordan Peele’s darkly comedic horror film has been deemed as "compulsory seeing” by critics: “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.”Another critic described the 2019 film as “fearsomely entertaining, consistently thought-provoking and occasionally bloody scary,” while one termed it a “brash and brilliant beach holiday horror”.
Audience reviews for the film don’t stray too far from the critical consensus, with one review declaring: “Us has one of the greatest twists of all time.
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