Us

The premise does not survive scrutiny and the film is so well made that you will not care until afterwards.

A family are confronted at their holiday home by four people in red who look exactly like them.

Peele's direction is the reason. The opening on the Santa Cruz boardwalk in 1986, the hall of mirrors, the rabbit imagery, the ballet cross-cutting in the final act, and Lupita Nyong'o giving two completely distinct physical performances, one of them with a voice that took a real toll on her.

Michael Abels' score, built on a choral arrangement of a hip-hop track, is superb.

The explanation involves an abandoned underground programme and does not hold together for a second if you think about food supply or numbers. Peele has been fairly open that the tethered are a metaphor first.

The final reveal is guessable and lands anyway.