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'A Quiet Place' silently disturbs viewers

By Phil Akin Warning: This review contains spoilers for the movie A Quiet Place Show, don’t tell. It’s a crucial rule all movies should follow. Unfortunately, some films fall short of that and fail. A Quiet Place is not one of those failures. While not perfect by any means, it succeeded where it needed to. The true brilliance in A Quiet Place comes with the use of sound, the highlight of the movie, that makes the movie all the more suspenseful. There’s next to no spoken dialogue, no exposition, no context, no world building, and that’s okay.

Where it succeeds

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Where it fails

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In the end

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