Us Review
This, here, is a clever little film. How clever, I’m not sure, but clever enough to raise the right sort of questions without answering them. It is a horror movie in which lots of people are killed by mysterious doppelgängers. However, the violence only acts as window dressing. Like its opening text suggests, there is a lot more happening beneath the surface. Buried secrets, hidden meanings, allegories galore. You wouldn’t think that possible for a film with so many scares and murders, but Jordan Peele’s Us is a thriller that doubles as a parable. It’s a machine of fear with something to say.