A Quiet Place: Day One

critic Reviews

, 86% Certified Fresh Tomatometer Score
  • Grounded in raw humanity by Lupita Nyong'o and Joseph Quinn, this sideways entry into A Quiet Place finds fresh notes of fright to play amid the silence.
  • , Fresh Tomatometer Score
    Christina NewlandiNews.co.uk
    With a fresh vision, a new cast and a scare rate that just won’t quit, this bucks the trend for horrors with diminishing returns.
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    Perri NemiroffPerri Nemiroff (YouTube)
    Day One delivers a wildly effective big city disaster film while making the most of the franchise’s core concept and keeping the series character-first. Lupita Nyong'o's energy and fight are hugely captivating. An ace digging into character complexities.
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    Dwight BrownDwightBrownInk.com
    There isn’t wall-to-wall violence. There’s wall-to-wall expectations of it, and that’s even more chilling.
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    Megan McCluskeyTIME Magazine
    While Day One packs a poignant punch, it's not exactly in contention for scariest movie of the year.
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    Noëlle D. LilleyChicago Reader
    As a franchise prequel, A Quiet Place: Day One doesn’t do enough world-building, but Lupita Nyong’o makes it worth a watch.
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    Richard RoeperChicago Sun-Times
    By the time Day One reaches its beautifully rendered and deeply moving conclusion, we're all in.
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    Maitland McDonaghMaitlandOnMovies (Substack)
    Some of the greatest horror in this eminently suspenseful film comes not from the sci-fi fiction of monsters but from the very visceral imagery of how what we take for granted could be gone in an instant ... either vanished for good or irrevocably changed
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    Clement Tyler ObroptaFilm Inquiry
    If you love horror movies, if you love this universe, if you love Joseph Quinn from Stranger Things, or if you just love cats, A Quiet Place: Day One delivers.
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  • , Rotten Tomatometer Score
    Jeffrey OverstreetLooking Closer
    Sarnoski makes the scenes of human intimacy as substantial as anything I’ve yet seen in this series. But just as I did with the first two, I staggered out of the theater glad the movie hadn’t run longer, and suffering from another concussion headache.
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    Alyse WaxScreenopolis
    Good scares, characters I cared about, and a cute cat. But what does this add to the Quiet Place mythos? Nothing, really.
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