Us
2019
***
Director: Jordan Peele
Cast: Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker, Shahadi Wright Joseph, Evan Alex, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Anna Diop
As a child, Adelaide wandered away from her parents at a carnival and ran into a girl who looked exactly like her. More than 30 years later, she is wife and mother of two, but still haunted by this memory. One night, their holiday home is invaded by an entire family of creepy doppelgängers. Jordan Peele's follow-up to Get Out has an atmospheric, unsettling, and intriguing set-up. However, the payoff is somewhat inevitably underwhelming and nonsensical. Peele's script features some interesting subtext about a two-tiered American society, but the surface level of the story has so many unexplained plot holes that I couldn't fully embrace the film.
