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"His skill set is immense, and he has mastered many different genres of music," Jordan Peele says of composer Michael Abels (center).

Michael Abels, Composer Of Jordan Peele's 'Us', Balances Terror With Empathy

10:38am March 25, 2019

by Tim Greiving

Abels was a music teacher who had never scored a film when he was hired for Jordan Peele's Get Out and now Us. Peele hired him after a fruitless search for an African-American film composer.

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'Giraffes On Horseback Salad' Tells The Lost Story Of Harpo Marx And Salvador Dalí

7:00am March 24, 2019

by Etelka Lehoczky

When Salvador Dalí met Harpo Marx, he was so infatuated that he wrote a treatment for a surreal Marx Brothers film, Giraffes on Horseback Salad. The film didn't fly, but this graphic novel does.

In Us, Winston Duke, Shahadi Wright Joseph, Evan Alex and Lupita Nyong'o (L-R) play the members of a family — and their doppelgangers.

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Jordan Peele Looked Into The Mirror And Saw The Evil Inside 'Us'

7:32pm March 22, 2019

by Ailsa Chang

For his much-anticipated follow-up to his Oscar-winning movie Get Out, the writer-director sets a family up against its own doppelgangers. That is, he made a full-on horror film.

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Movie Review: 'Hotel Mumbai' Looks At 2008 Terrorist Attack That Shook The World

4:18pm March 22, 2019

by Bob Mondello

The 2008 terrorist attack on the famed Taj Hotel is recreated in the new film drama, Hotel Mumbai.

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Jordan Peele's 'Us' Asks: What If The Evil That Dwells Within Took Human Form?

1:36pm March 22, 2019

by Justin Chang

Peele mixes horror and hilarity in a new film about a family who runs into terrifying doppelgängers of themselves while on vacation. Critic Justin Chang says star Lupita Nyong'o carries the movie.

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Measure Twice ...: Lupita Nyong'o stars in Us, the latest horror film written and directed by Jordan Peele.

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When You Meet The Enemy, And It Is 'Us'

5:00pm March 21, 2019

by Scott Tobias

Though less thematically precise than Get Out, Jordan Peele's latest film doubles down on horror — and excels at capturing the mundane, funny moments between the big scares.

Nazanin Boniadi, Dev Patel, and Armie Hammer star in Hotel Mumbai, a docudrama about the 2008 attack on the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel.

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In 'Hotel Mumbai,' Grueling Violence, Depicted With Cruel Relish

5:00pm March 21, 2019

by Danny Hensel

The film's choice to foreground white characters over the deaths of many Indian victims makes for a cold, distasteful watch.

Sunset stars Juli Jakab as Irisz Leiter, a young woman in Budapest on the eve of WWI.

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On The Eve Of World War I, 'Sunset' Is Gorgeous But Opaque

5:00pm March 21, 2019

by Ella Taylor

A beautiful, headstrong young woman (Juli Jakab) interrogates her past even as Budapest prepares to crumble; director Laszlo Nemes depicts "the soil in which fascism takes root" with cool dispassion.

Patricia Clarkson stars in Out Of Blue, a genre-bending detective flick. The movie is based on the Marin Amis novel Night Train.

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'Out Of Blue': Stardust And (Hollywood) Star-Power Fuel This Genre-Bending Whodunit

5:00pm March 21, 2019

by Andrew Lapin

This introspective (and occasionally downright lethargic) existential whodunit starring Patricia Clarkson and a cast of ringers is based on the Martin Amis novel Night Train.

The Role Movie Posters Play In The Digital Age

6:07pm March 20, 2019

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with film critic William Bibbiani about the role movie posters play today, following the release of the poster for Quentin Tarantino's, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

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