A Quiet Place Review: 9 Ups & 1 Down

4. The Pacing Is Perfect

The film clocks in at just 90 minutes in length, and doesn't waste a single second of screen time on excess, delivering a brilliantly streamlined exercise in pure suspense, respecting the viewer's time while refusing to stretch its premise beyond breaking point.

In barely 80 minutes (sans credits) Krasinski establishes a well-worn world, invests the audience in these characters and puts them through abject hell, and it's incredibly difficult to do all that this effectively in such a brief runtime.

That it doesn't feel rushed is an impressive testament to the director's filmmaking economy and how brilliantly he slices away the fat that would bog down a more conventional approach to this material.