Review: ‘Us’ Is About Ascending From Your Own Personal Hell

Review: ‘Us’ Is About Ascending From Your Own Personal Hell

The prowess of a Jordan Peele film reveals itself in the dive. With Get Out—his Oscar-winning 2017 social thriller about brain-swapping white liberals and their obsession with black bodies—Peele explored what it meant to descend into, and ultimately be trapped by, the dark vista of the mind. What unfurled was a cerebral madhouse of tangled …