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A Quiet Place: Day One doesn’t live up to its franchise

By Glen Starkey and Anna Starkey

Co-writer and director Michael Sarnoski (Pig) helms this prequel to A Quiet Place (2018) and A Quiet Place Part II (2020), this time with only one returning character, Henri (Djimon Housou), billed as Man on Island in Part II. The main character in this prequel is hospice patient Samira (Lupita Nyong’o), who during a fieldtrip from her care facility to New York City has the bad luck of witnessing firsthand an alien invasion of murderous blind creatures with ultra-sensitive hearing out to kill off humanity...

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