A Quiet Place: Day One (2024)

The quiet parts work best in the pedestrian ‘A Quiet Place: Day One’. ‘A Quiet Place: Day One’ manages to tell a decent human story in the midst of a mostly pointless, extended flashback to the start of the alien invasion.

Although ‘A Quiet Place Part II’ already documented the arrival of the first movie’s vicious aliens via opening flashbacks, this prequel makes the choice to tell more or less the same story again, only on a bigger canvas. ‘A Quiet Place: Day One’ is set in New York City, as opposed to the quiet rural town of John Krasinski’s first two films, giving new director and writer Michael Sarnoski a much wider field to play on.