Us 2019

Reviews (21)

1. B

   blesmes 8 月 24, 2026

   WHAT MOVIE DID YOU PEOPLE WATCH

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2. L

   Lucy 8 月 24, 2026

   “but your people took it for granted” this is such an interesting movie in the sense that you can go as deep as you’d like to go with it. at surface level is a very thrilling and accessible horror movie, but the possibilities are endless from there in all kinds of different directions. i’ve been thinking about it more and more, and during my rewatch tonight my mind was racing with bigger picture theories the entire time the most fascinating theory that my thoughts were preoccupied with involves the switching of the two girls at the beginning and how it shapes the story: we learn at the end that they switched as children, but the way that this information affects…

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3. S

   sree 8 月 24, 2026

   i can’t believe the biggest audience reaction was when the girl said she didn’t know what home alone was

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4. S

   sree 8 月 24, 2026

   the other me if you read this i’m free on thursday and would like to hang out please respond to this and then hang out with me on thursday when i’m free

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5. P

   Patrick Willems 8 月 24, 2026

   Best use of “Good Vibrations” maybe ever

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6. D

   demi adejuyigbe 8 月 24, 2026

   I really, really, really enjoyed this film. But as I left the theatre, I had so many more questions than I entered with, and the more I talked about it with a friend the more I realized that it is a complete inverse of the structure in Get Out (which tightens to a conclusion, as opposed to unraveling as you get more answers) which set me up to be disappointed. My fault! I’m confused by so much of what happened in this movie and what it means and how certain ideas seemingly conflict with the rules of the world, but I still think I loved it. The only review I saw before watching this movie was K. Austin Collins’ Letterboxd…

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7. L

   lauren 8 月 24, 2026

   so is it masturbating or sex if you fuck your tether

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8. L

   Lucy 8 月 24, 2026

   both lupitas: We tethered 😂😂😂

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9. V

   Vince East 8 月 24, 2026

   Themes Explained: After a second viewing and researching various theories, I’ve realized there is a lot more to Us than I initially thought. The surface-level explanation of the plot is generally straightforward, but Jordan Peele has embedded so much symbolism and thematic commentary into the film that require a bit more digging into. I have taken the ideas that stood out to me the most and compiled an interpretation that I feel is closest to what Peele was going for. I’m sure there are many other theories that work, but if anything, I hope this analysis increases your appreciation of a film that I find nothing short of genius. The main underlying theme in the film deals with income inequality,…

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10. R

    Roberto_ 8 月 24, 2026

    me: *looks at the mirror* me: wow this is just like us (2019)

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11. T

    tru 8 月 24, 2026

    and to think, if it weren’t for you, i never would’ve danced at all

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12. S

    sophie 8 月 24, 2026

    jordan peele saw the ‘alexa play despacito’ meme and said ‘good but let’s make it really fucked up’

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13. C

    CinemaSerf 5 月 30, 2024

    A run of the mill family are on holiday when they are terrorised by their seemingly immortal and extremely brutal doppelgängers. I liked this – it’s not remotely scary, in fact it is actually quite funny – in a perverse sort of way. The acrobatic kids cavorting about with limbs that bend (and break) every which way belong in the Olympics. It’s hardly original, either – you’ll have seen plenty other films in the same vein – but it is FUN! It moves along entertainingly and though the dialogue is not going to trouble a Pulitzer jury, it is almost two hours of escapism that makes no pretence to be otherwise. (Yes, the ending is pretty darned dreadful!).

14. G

    GenerationofSwine 1 月 12, 2023

    Well, they cut back on the blatant racism from “Get Out,” so that’s a plus. It didn’t make the film a uncomfortable to watch in an original “A Birth of a Nation” kind of way. But’s it’s still there, just slightly muted.

    And, like “Get Out,” it’ll have the same cringe effect once its not socially acceptable any longer. But again, it was toned down so it isn’t as uncomfortable a watch.

    However, the film kind of gives everything away in the very beginning. Straight down to the grand event at the end. So if you’re paying attention to glaring, obvious, detail the twist at the other end can be seen easier than a 20mph fastball.

    There is a moment of doubt that, maybe the obvious hints were wrong, but right before the action starts the mother gives a speech to absolutely ensure that you, yes, you were right from the start.

    And the racism, though toned down, makes it pretty clear that the peaceful and loving event highlighted at the start of the film, isn’t just going to be for nostalgic reasons. It’s going to be a plot element, only because someone like Jordan Peele isn’t that type that would look at that gesture of 80s kindness favorably.

15. S

    Sheldon Nylander 11 月 13, 2019

    It’s sloppy, lacks logic or internal consistency, makes really bizarre and inane storytelling decisions, and has a less than satisfying ending. It’s also strangely fun and absorbing and a good time, even if you end up racking your brain trying to figure out the logic.

    Following up his excellent “Get Out,” Jordan Peele gives us “Us,” the story of a family terrorized be evil doppelgangers who want revenge for something and to finally get their time in the sun in a very clear socioeconomic metaphor. Ultimately it doesn’t make a lot of sense, and yet there’s still something strangely compelling about this film. It’s as though Peele tries to walk us through the door, but realizes too late that he forgot to open the door first and we end up crashing through it, Kool-Aid man style, getting a few splinters stuck in our eye in the process. We get the results we ultimately wanted, but it’s far from painless.

    The problem comes down to basic logic. As the movie goes on, you can’t help but wonder how exactly this works. When needing to identify with movie characters, you have to figure out how the world they’re in works. Honestly, I found Middle Earth to have more of an internal logic than this world. And this is supposed to be our world, not some weird fantasy realm.

    While this movie is plagued by problems with disbelief, it’s still strangely fun. Like, really fun! It’s a great idea, just sloppily executed and rushed out without fixing the logic part. As such, it’s one of those movies that seems to have divided audience everywhere. I myself can see both sides, so it’s getting a middle of the road rating from me. If you can consciously suspend disbelief in the face of some major logical problems, you’re bound to have a lot of fun. Otherwise, you might want to skip it to save your own sanity.

16. D

    Dean 9 月 16, 2019

    It started really intriguing and mysteriously interesting and thought it was something about supernatural/paranormal stuff (which I like a lot), but unfortunately transformed into something else and all in all, it became average movie in my opinion.

17. S

    Stephen Campbell 8 月 6, 2019

    **_An effective socio-political thriller looking at issues of class and privilege_**

    > _Therefore thus saith the LORD, “Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them.”_

    – Jeremiah 11:11

    There’s a detail to be found in writer/director Jordan Peele’s second feature, _Us_, which gives you a good idea of the amount of thought that has gone into the film. In the opening scene, set in 1986, a young girl walks into a hall of mirrors, with a sign outside proclaiming “Find yourself”, and a picture of a Native American above the door, with the words “Shaman Vision Quest”. Later in the film, now in the present day, the same hall of mirrors is seen, the same “Find yourself” is seen, but now the picture of the Native American has been replaced with a wizard, and “Shaman Vision Quest” with “Merlin’s Enchanted Forest.” This change, easily dismissed as representative of everything that’s wrong with PC culture, is actually much more telling. It represents a meaningless and superficial attempt to tackle society’s discomfort with the violence found throughout the history of the United States. It’s like putting a plaster on a severed limb; “_sure, the white man slaughtered the Native Americans, but if we do things like change signs on amusement parks, everything should be forgiven, right?_” This, in turn, speaks directly to one of the film’s most salient themes – the US (or us) as we know it today is a country built on violence, racism, and oppression, but as long as such things are swept under the carpet and no one talks about them, then there’s no need to worry. Peele very much wants people to start talking about them.

    I wasn’t the biggest fan of Peele’s previous film, the smash hit, _Get Out_; it was a terrific idea and a well-made film, but it left me a little indifferent. However, although it wasn’t my all-time favourite movie, I certainly admired how he reformulated the tropes of the genre so as to suggest that just because the US gives the appearance of being a pseudo-post-racial society, it doesn’t necessarily mean that that’s true behind closed doors and in people’s hearts. With _Us_, he is working in a similarly metaphorical mode, using the tropes of the home invasion thriller to probe issues of class and, especially, privilege, whilst also suggesting that what gives us our humanity may not be the same thing as what makes us human. The plot is an allegory for a nation divided unto itself; a fractured national identity that sees a strict demarcation between those above and those below, the haves and the have-nots, those with opportunity and those without. Essentially, Peele suggests that when social/economic/political inequality is so pronounced for so long, sooner or later, the only recourse available to the have-nots is to make a grand statement, a statement that will almost certainly not be peaceful.

    The film opens in 1986 as the Thomas family visit the boardwalk in Santa Cruz. With the relationship between father Russel (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) and mother Rayne (Anna Diop) icy at best, daughter Adelaide (Madison Curry) is somewhat of an afterthought. Leaving Adelaide in Thomas’s charge, Rayne heads to the bathroom, but with Thomas more interested in playing Whack-a-mole, Adelaide wanders down onto the beach. Walking into a strange beachfront hall of mirrors, she sees something that deeply traumatises her, resulting in her not talking for several years. The film then cuts to the present day as the now-adult Adelaide Wilson (an astounding Lupita Nyong’o) travels to Santa Cruz with her family – husband Gabe (Winston Duke), daughter Zora (Shahadi Wright Joseph) and son Jason (Evan Alex). Comfortably middle-class, the family are staying in a house owned by Adelaide’s parents, although much to Gabe’s irritation, they are nowhere near as wealthy as their neighbours, the Tylers – Kitty (Elisabeth Moss), Josh (Tim Heidecker), and twin

18. G

    Gimly 4 月 12, 2019

    _Us_ is gonna be a tough one to review. Difficult to review without spoilers, which is what I’m gonna do here, but I think even if I was doing spoilers, I’d still struggle.

    What I will say, is that my feelings on _Us_ went up and down as I sat there and the story progressed. At one point, I was enraptured by a single scene that for a brief moment I got so caught up I felt certain no movie of the year was ever going to be able to top it. But then the scene ended, and shortly after the movie ended and my mind just went to “…It’s good”.

    **Definitely** merits watching, re-watching and analysing (there is a **lot** to unpack from _Us_) but maybe not the highest of all available praises.

    _Final rating:★★★ – I liked it. Would personally recommend you give it a go._

19. T

    TheJonathanSim 3 月 26, 2019

    Led by stellar performances and careful directing, Us asks more questions than it answers, giving the audience all the tools needed to solve every single mystery for themselves, making this an uncommonly effective horror masterpiece.

20. M

    Manuel São Bento 3 月 20, 2019

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    First of all, you can read my review of one of my favorite movies of 2017, Jordan Peele‘s Get Out by clicking its title. One of the best feature-long debuts of all-time by a writer-director who I wish he discovered his filmmaker skills sooner because the horror genre urgently needed someone like him. Peele is starting to become one of Hollywood’s most notable people, and he proves once again, now with Us, that his undeniable talent is going to leave our jaws dropped and our minds confused for quite some years. While I do think that his first film is more consistent and better structured, Us is so far the best movie of the year, and I doubt that it will stop being part of that list by the end of it.

    The best films are the ones that can transform a 45-min car ride back home from the theater into a blink of an eye. I spent all that time plus some more minutes discussing and arguing with my partner who I saw the movie with. By now, I have a pretty decent understanding of the film’s story and of Lupita‘s character arc, which will definitely leave you extremely confused and mind-blown by the end of the movie. However, I will see it a second time to make sure my “theory” aligns with everything else, especially those tiny little details we don’t really think they matter when they actually do.

    Peele‘s screenplay is thought-provoking and suspenseful, filled with brilliant character development, and surprisingly well-filmed action scenes. I guess he knows how to do anything efficiently. The chasing scenes are riveting, and the fights are bloody awesome. In addition to this, most of the action occurs at night which requires the director to know what he’s doing, so the audience is able to follow what’s happening. I never, not once, lost my place during an action sequence. I knew who everyone was, where were they at, and what were they doing. Nowadays, having in mind how actual action blockbusters are being made, this is the best praise I can give a director regarding these type of scenes.

    A lot of articles are calling Jordan Peele the “next Spielberg“ or “new Hitchcock“. I’m calling him the first Jordan Peele! I would have loved to be the one who came up with this last sentence, but I wasn’t … and I’m so happy about it. It means that more people are starting to plant into their minds that Peele is one of a kind, not one like the other. His trademark close-up shots right in the actors’ faces can show and tell so much about a character. Besides that, the actors will have a golden opportunity to show their enormous emotional range, their incredible expressions, their limitless talent … That is if you are someone like Lupita Nyong’o.

    Right after I watched Alita: Battle Angel, I called that it would get an Oscar nomination for Best Visuals Effects, and I still stand by it. Well, I also want to be the first to call not only an Oscar nom, but a Best Actress win for Lupita. Daniel Kaluuya was outstanding in Get Out, but Lupita surpasses his fellow comrade with two (!) powerfully captivating performances. As the original mother, she shows kindness and endearing traits. As her doppelganger, she’s scary, menacing, and evil. Two completely different characters with distinct physical and psychological characteristics are no problem for Lupita. She handles them in such a flawless and effortless manner, carrying the entire narrative on her shoulders like it was nothing. She deserves every recognition there is.

    Nonetheless, she still received great help from the remaining cast. Winston Duke (Gabe Wilson) is hilarious, and he’s the primary source of comedy throughout the film. With a remarkable balance of tones, Peele lets Duke shine in a role that he thrives on. Us can be very heavy and dark at times, so a good laugh here and there is always welcome. The young actors are also great, but I have to congratulate Shahadi Wright Joseph‘s performance as Zora Wilson. She has

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    moviegodjohn 3 月 10, 2019

    Jordan peele is one of the best dictators in the world with only two movies and this movie is amazing
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