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Save this story for later. The chance to make a sequel to one’s own film is a gift of freedom for a director, a chance to expand ideas, reveal latent motives, and push major themes in new directions. That freedom doesn’t seem to have tempted John Krasinski in his direction of “A Quiet Place Part II,” the second installment in what’s shaping up to be a franchise. Instead, with a self-imposed sense of duty and some intermittent cleverness, he follows the rules that he set down for himself in the original film, from 2018. The cramped results are all the more disheartenin...

MOVIE REVIEW by Richard Roeper "A QUIET PLACE PART II" Three and a half stars Evelyn ............ Emily Blunt Emmett ............ Cillian Murphy Man on Island ..... Djimon Hounsou Paramount Pictures presents a film written and directed by John Krasinski. Rated PG-13 (for terror, violence and bloody/disturbing images). Running time: 97 minutes. Opens Thursday at local theaters. ** ** ** We begin at the real beginning, with a cacophony of sounds. The clanging of a bell announcing a new customer entering a pharmacy. Said customer's boots clomping along the floor. A loud WHOOOSHING noise as the c...

After an eight-year comedic run on TV’s “The Office,” John Krasinski reinvented himself as a leading man in the rough-and-tumble Amazon version of Tom Clancy’s “Jack Ryan.” About that same

Is John Krasinski in A Quiet Place Part 2? Let’s get the 2021 movie sequel explored and consider whether the Lee Abbott actor returns.

Our Verdict Between Simmonds’ superb lead, the suspense, the slivers of hope, A Quiet Place Part II is worth making a noise for. Just pipe down in the cinema. In 2018, A Quiet Place arrived with surprise on its side. Arguably, Hereditary generated more pre-release noise that year. Few viewers suspected that Dunder Mifflin’s Jim had a kick-ass alien thriller in him, let alone one with such a strong, silent(-ish) conceptual hook. And who thought John Krasinski would dare deliver that pulverizing prologue, with its "Oh my god, you killed Beau" gut-puncher? With expectations heightened by a C...