Jordan Peele’s<em> Us</em> Is Worth Seeing Again and Again
The <em>Get Out </em>director’s new film is more complicated, more outrageous, and, in a lot of ways, more daringly funny and topical than its predecessor.
by David Sims
Mar 19, 2019
3 minutes
In the opening sequence of , Jordan Peele gives the audience what it might be expecting after months of hype for his follow-up to : a perfectly taut piece of virtuoso horror filmmaking. A little girl (played by Madison Curry) frolics with her family at a seaside funfair, then wanders off as her dad plays a carnival game, eventually winding up alone in a haunted house. It’s a place for cheap scares, one that tries to jolt you by having things burst out of the wall. But Peele (who wrote, produced, and directed)
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