Film of the Week: Us

Jordan Peele’s follow-up to Get Out doesn’t quite match its conceptual daring, but it does out-do it in actually, you know, being scary. Lupita Nyong’o and Black Panther’s Winston Duke are the parents in a normal family who find their exact doubles in the driveway of their holiday home – and these doppelgangers mean business. Could they be connected to a traumatic event in Nyong’o’s childhood? What do you think? The setup works far better than the payoff (much like Get Out), and the gore is on the fairly tame side for today’s horror marketplace, but there are plenty of both uncanny images and genuine belly laughs to make for a high-end trip to the pictures. Fans of creepy masks in particular are in for a treat, too. Times & trailer