Us Is Certified Fresh

This weekend at the movies, we’ve got Jordan Peele‘s sophomore scare-fest (Us, starring Lupita Nyong’o and Winston Duke), a middle-aged romance (Gloria Bell, starring Julianne Moore and John Turturro), and a 20th anniversary revival (Cruel Intentions, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar and Ryan Phillippe). What are the critics saying?

What’s New on TV

The Act: Season 1

88%

Disturbingly nuanced performances from Patricia Arquette and Joey King make The Act a convincing case for the ongoing dramatization of true crime stories.

Also Opening This Week In Limited Release

• , a documentary about the sexual assault scandal that rocked a small-town high school football team in Ohio, is at 100%.
• , a drama about the real-life escape of 38 IRA inmates from the titular Northern Irish prison, is at 100%.
• , a documentary about service dogs and their owners, is at 100%.
• , about a young boy who can’t feel pain who sets out to become a vigilante hero, is at 100%.
• , starring Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn in a thriller about a pair of suspended cops who face off with a drug dealer, is at 80%.
• , starring Dev Patel and Armie Hammer in a thriller based on the real-life terrorist attacks on Mumbai in 2008, is at 77%.
• , about a young ramen chef who leaves Japan to reconnect with his dead mother’s Singaporean family, is at 75%.
• , starring Tony Jaa and Iko Uwais in an action thriller about a group of martial artists who must protect a billionaire’s daughter from assassins, is at 72%.
• , an absurdist comedy about a man who accepts a challenge to get to level 256 of Pac-Man without leaving his couch, is at 65%.
• , about a cop whose investigation of a murdered physicist leads to unexpected existential ruminations, is at 52%.
• , about a young woman who travels to Budapest in 1913 in search of links to her dead parents’ past, is at 50%.
• , starring John Travolta in an action film about a father and son racing duo who are split apart by rival outfits, is at 0%.