Us
First screened in March 2019
Director: Jordan Peele. Cast: Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Shahadi Wright Joseph, Evan Alex, Madison Curry, Ashley Mckoy, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Anna Diop, Elisabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker, Cali Sheldon, Noelle Sheldon, Alan Frazier. Screenplay: Jordan Peele. Twitter Capsule:
Allegory that never fully resolves. To protect its dream logic? To honor lived inconsistencies? Because it's just flawed? Dunno.
VOR:④
Sometimes strains at "originality," but so much here is nervy and unusual, particularly in its intimate, merciless tie to the central family.
