If you’ve already seen writer/director/actor John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place (2018) and/or A Quiet Place Part II (2020), you know the drill: The world has been overrun by monstrous aliens who apparently are blind, though that’s not really a plus for us puny humans because they’re also big, tooth-and-claw-equipped apex predators with hyperacute hearing. Evading them requires mastering the art of being very, very quiet. That’s probably great for the stealth ninjas of the world but not so good for the rest of us. This post-apocalyptic prequel finds the aliens laying siege to New York City, and while Washington D.C. may house the seat of government, New York is the city of movie dreams — and seeing it wracked to ruin in a single day is never not devastating to those of us born and raised here, no matter how many film apocalypses we’ve sat through. Director and co-writer Michael Sarnoski’s A Quiet Place: Day One is the first Quiet Place movie set in any city, so hey: Why not go big?
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