A Quiet Place Review: 9 Ups & 1 Down

5. John Krasinski's Terrific Direction

A Quiet Place is The Office star John Krasinski's third directorial effort to date, and after his prior films - 2009's Brief Interviews with Hideous Men and 2016's The Hollars - were both met with mediocre reviews, this is his first to score any significant measure of critical praise.

And rightly so. Krasinski directs the hell out of this taut survival tale, clearly benefiting from his own personal engagement with the story, and perhaps proving that his future as a filmmaker isn't in low-key art-house fare, but tightly-wound genre pieces such as this.

It's a shockingly assured effort from someone whose previous films haven't been warmly embraced, demonstrating more discipline and skill than just about anyone could've reasonably expected. Clearly, he's going to be a director to watch in the coming years.