Donâ?Tt move. Donâ?Tt make a sound. Donâ?Tt even breathe. Itâ?Ts a scene we know all too well: a trembling victim swallowing their sobs to stay undetected by an approaching villain: from Jamie Lee Curtis cowering in the closet in Halloween, to Jodie Foster tiptoeing in the dark in The Silence of the Lambs, to two children hiding from raptors in the kitchen in Jurassic Park. Rarely

John Krasinski’s suspenseful invasion flick—in which the aliens attack anything that makes a sound—rewards those who sit in silence.

Starring John Krasinski (who also co-wrote and directed) and his real-life wife, Emily Blunt, ‘A Quiet Place’ is an aggressively scary horror film. The gimmick is thunderously effective: Don’t make a sound or you’re dead meat.

"A Quiet Place" is a bold horror breakout for director John Krasinski, who stars opposite his wife, Emily Blunt.

PG-13 • 1 hour 30 min • 2018

Actor/filmmaker John Krasinski continues his artistic evolution with the silent, dread-filled horror "A Quiet Place" starring Emily Blunt.

A Quiet Place is a smart, nervy thrill ride: EW review

John Krasinski’s high-concept horror film is about monsters drawn to sound — and a family living in constant, muffled dread.

John Krasinski directs wife Emily Blunt in a gory horror that’s all about family.

John Krasinski delivers a nail-biting genre hit for Paramount.

John Krasinski wrote, directed, and stars in this very effective horror film set in a world where making noise can be deadly.

Check out Matt Donato's review of A Quiet Place, John Krasinski's mute-but-mighty survival thriller that kicked off this year's SXSW with a bang!

I don’t enjoy horror films for the most part but I was glued to the screen for A Quiet Place, a truly scary movie that’s artfully executed. John Krasinski directed, co-wrote the script, and stars in the film with his wife Emily Blunt. All we know at the outset is that alien creatures have decimated the…

John Krasinski's “A Quiet Place,” the story of a family under siege whose survival is due to the family members' ability to live on their rural farm in silence, creates...

‘A Quiet Place’ is like ‘Aliens’ retooled as a militant librarian’s fantasy. Actor-director John Krasinski’s relentless shocker thrives on a nifty premise: in a

Silence provides an edge-of-the-seat backdrop to the scares in John Krasinski’s terrifically taut monster movie

If John Krasinski’s smart thriller doesn’t pull you in on its own, Emily Blunt’s will mesmerize you with her performance

A clever idea gets a healthy workout in this tight, well-acted armrest-gripper about a family under siege from aliens who hunt by sound

Real-life husband and wife Emily Blunt and director John Krasinski star in a smart monster movie centered on a winning premise — and an even more winning fami...

The actor-director directs this inventive near-silent survival story, with a cast that includes Emily Blunt and breakout Millicent Simmonds.

For movies like A QuietPlace – science fiction-based horror films that aren’t obsessed withappealing to the Blumhouse demographic – tone and atmosphere are the mostcritical production aspects. This is something Ridley Scott understood as ...

Silence is golden — and terrifying.

The top movie in America is a subtle exploration of film's aural component. It's also the best alien invasion horror flick in years.

John Krasinski knows where the horror is, and where the money is in "A Quiet Place," and keeps the camera in tight on it. It's the faces registering the quaking fear, the shaken-to-their-marrow terror of his actors, who make this compact genre piece pay off. When you're married to one of the great screen actresses…

It is a tight thrill ride—the kind of movie that quickens the heart rate and plays with the expectations of the audience, while never treating them like idiots. In other words, it’s a really good horror movie.

A Quiet Place is where John Krasinski's hushed experiment in terror should be watched, not at multiplexes where silence is easily broken.

Hungry monsters eat anything that makes a sound in John Krasinski's third outing as director, 'A Quiet Place,' in which he co-stars with wife Emily Blunt.