‘A Quiet Place: Day One’ Review: How Lupita Nyong’o Learned to Stop Worrying and Look for Pizza

If Michael Sarnoski’s serviceable sci-fi prequel has any new ideas, it’s keeping its mouth shut

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Lupita Nyong'o in "A Quiet Place: Day One" (Paramount Pictures)

It’s been six years since John Krasinski’s sci-fi monster movie “A Quiet Place” debuted. If you want a refresher course, it was about a post-apocalyptic future where aliens landed on Earth and killed everyone who spoke above the slightest whisper. It’s a pretty scary movie until you realize these villains are basically evil space librarians, so when they’re not on camera they’re probably just doing a lot of filing.

The evil space librarians returned in “A Quiet Place: Part 2,” which mostly takes place after the original but also finally reveals what happened on day one of the alien invasion. So that makes the title of the new, third film “A Quiet Place: Day One” a lot less intriguing.

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