Staying Fit
Rating: R
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Run time: 1 hours 56 minutes
Stars: Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss, Lupita Nyong'o
Director: Jordan Peele
Is anybody hotter than Jordan Peele right now? He produced BlacKkKlansman, leads the CBS April 1 reboot of The Twilight Zone, and won a 2018 writing Oscar (plus best picture and director nominations) for his directing debut Get Out. Us — his second horror film for smart people who don’t like excessive gore — got a 99 percent Rotten Tomatoes rating, one point shy of Get Out’s perfect score, and may boost his film grosses over $400 million. Not bad for a 40-year-old directorial newcomer.
Peele also won a 2016 Emmy for comedy, and Us exemplifies Quentin Tarantino’s idea that funny and scary are “two great tastes that taste great together.” There are plenty of chuckles in Us’s lampoon of the all-American family of Adelaide Wilson (Lupita Nyong’o), whose kids (Shahadi Wright Joseph and Evan Alex) join her in rolling their eyes over the sitcom-worthy antics of their dad, Gabe (Black Panther’s Winston Duke), a somewhat dumb, lovable big lug. Dumber and funnier still are their bickering, boozy, smugly entitled white best friends the Tylers (Tim Heidecker and Mad Men’s Elisabeth Moss), who have a summer place near the Wilsons’ in Santa Cruz, Calif.
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