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Summary
- At the time of this writing, A Quiet Place: Day One registers 86% on the Tomatometer against 88 reviews.
- Both A Quiet Place (96%) and A Quiet Place Part II (91%) fared better with critics on Rotten Tomatoes than the new prequel has initially, but Day One’s score could still go up.
- Day One is eyeing a $40+ million opening weekend domestically, but Inside Out 2 will likely be the No. 1 movie at the box office for the third week in a row.
Day One has arrived… A Quiet Place: Day One that is. The highly anticipated third installment in creator John Krasinski’s silent but spectacular horror franchise is set to start its preview screenings this afternoon (Thursday, June 27) before officially opening in theaters tomorrow. And screenwriter and director Michael Sarnoski’s contribution to the film saga is finding favor with the majority of critics as its Rotten Tomatoes score drops online: Day One currently registers 86% on the Tomatometer against 88 reviews. MovieWeb’s own Julian Roman writes:
“A Quiet Place: Day One delivers intense action and scares, with strong performances and impressive visual effects. We still have no new information about the aliens in the franchise, but one thing's for sure: Lupita Nyong'o is incredible.”
Dread Central’s Sharai Bohannon adds:
A Quiet Place: Day One is big, beautiful, and tense. The film expertly navigates a more interesting avenue found within this world without losing sight of the human condition.
A Quiet Place: Day One
PG-13
Horror
Drama
Sci-Fi
3/5
A Quiet Place: Day One is a spin-off of the A Quiet Place franchise conceived by John Krasinski. The film is set at the beginning of the invasion as humanity scrambles to survive, before the events of the original film, with Lupita Nyong'O leading the cast, directed by Michael Sarnoski.
- Release Date
- June 28, 2024
- Director
- Michael Sarnoski
- Cast
- Lupita Nyong'o , Djimon Hounsou , Joseph Quinn , Alex Wolff
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Writers
- Scott Beck , John Krasinski , Jeff Nichols , Bryan Woods
- Studio
- Franchise
- A Quiet Place
- Distributor(s)
- Paramount Pictures
- Sequel(s)
- A Quiet Place , A Quiet Place: Part II , A Quiet Place: Part III
Day One’s Rotten Tomatoes score is scary good, but it’s not as impressive as Krasinski’s seminal movie or its first sequel. A Quiet Place (2018) boasts an almost perfect 96% on the Tomatometer, while A Quiet Place Part II’s (2020) 91% is also extremely high, particularly for a horror flick. Meagan Navarro of Bloody Disgusting writes in her review:
Sarnoski delivers plenty of creature feature intensity and breathless suspense, but it’s used more as a backdrop to a deeply affecting drama of human connection and compassion.
Most Critics Long to Curl Up in A Quiet Place: Day One
A Quiet Place: Day One’s first reactions are lining up almost perfectly with the horror film’s Rotten Tomatoes’ score and the critics’ reviews, thus far. Michael Sarnoski’s very first entry in the franchise opens up against Kevin Costner’s Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1 this weekend. But Day One is receiving significantly better praise from its own critiques. Ben Travis of Empire magazine writes:
A solid A Quiet Place entry is elevated by Lupita Nyong’o and Joseph Quinn’s affecting performances -- a surprisingly tender tale of the end of days.
Kate Erbland of IndieWire adds:
“While it would be nice to have more moments of that sort of grace, A Quiet Place: Day One offers enough of them to stand on its own merits within the confines of other people’s stories, dreams, and nightmares. It makes its own noise.”
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Michael Sarnoski’s Pig approach to A Quiet Place: Day One must be working, because the critics seem “speechless” over the new movie. And while Inside Out 2 ($55 million to $60 million) is forecast to win the upcoming weekend at the box office, Day One is eyeing a very respectable $40+ million start domestically. David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter says in his review of Day One:
It’s not often we get a post-apocalyptic saga that remains so personal, so in touch with human loss as something not just forgotten in the next jump scare but given room to linger...
Lastly, it’s not all good news for Day One. For a small section of the critics, the horror film isn’t quite hitting the mark. Kristy Puchko of Mashable writes:
A Quiet Place: Day One doesn't equal the sum of its parts. The love story at its core can't shine amid the required carnage and urban devastation demanded by the prequel's promise.
G. Allen Johnson of the San Francisco Chronicle adds:
A Quiet Place: Day One, which has very little story, the film actually operates as a character study as well, but with barely any dialogue, it makes Sarnoski’s approach harder to pull off.
A Quiet Place: Day One opens in theaters on June 28.
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