10 Most Divisive Movies Of 2024

10. A Quiet Place: Day One

Being a prequel to A Quiet Place, it was naturally expected that Day One would expand the mythology of the sci-fi horror franchise and dig deep into how the alien invasion kicked off.

And so, general audiences were left somewhat miffed that the film, written and directed by Michael Sarnoski (Pig), was instead a more introspective and surprisingly tender, character-driven prequel that had shockingly little interest in firmly explaining much about the aliens and their arrival on Earth.

Though Day One is certainly plenty suspenseful, it's clear that Sarnoski was far more concerned with crafting an emotional character study rather than shaping the character work around wall-to-wall set-pieces.

As a result, Day One posted by far the lowest audience score of the three A Quiet Place movies to date, with some calling it "boring," even if for many, this more restrained approach actually made it the best of the trilogy.

A phenomenal, even Oscar-worthy central performance from Lupita Nyong'o sure didn't hurt either.