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A quiet place 2 rotten tomatoes movie#
Reviews point to a movie that’s occasionally bluntly effective in its aggressive pursuit of the audience’s tear ducts, but unless you’re really into volleyball and/or hugely emotional final acts, consider yourself advised to stay on the sidelines for this one. To its credit, The Miracle Season does a couple of things that suggest it’ll be a worthy and/or somewhat novel addition to the genre, including hiring Helen Hunt and William Hurt to star and centering the plot around girls’ high school volleyball unfortunately, critics say none of it is enough to outweigh director Sean McNamara‘s overall failure to capture the heart-wrenching true story of a squad that bands together in pursuit of the state championship after the death of their star player. Once you’ve watched a few of them, it’s fairly easy to predict the storyline beats and when they’ll be hit, but no matter how many times we see people triumph over adversity through bonding over competitive games, it can still be powerfully effective when it’s done right.
There’s plenty of gross-out humor, to be sure - audiences may never look at Cena’s rear end and/or beer bongs the same way ever again - but the gags are brought to life by an exceptionally talented cast, and balanced by the type of intelligence and empathy that aren’t often found in this genre.Īs we’ve discussed countless times in this space, a formula only becomes a formula because it works - and the inspirational sports drama is a perfect case in point.
In terms of setup, it’s little more than a gender-swapped take on the type of “losin’ it” teen comedies the industry has been cranking out for decades fortunately, there’s a lot more to a movie than its setup, and critics say this is a very funny case in point. Happily, that isn’t the case with Blockers, which finds Pitch Perfect screenwriter Kay Cannon moving behind the camera to direct the tale of three high school seniors ( Kathryn Newton, Geraldine Viswanathan, and Gideon Adlon) determined to lose their virginity on prom night - and the increasingly desperate efforts of their parents (Leslie Mann, Ike Barinholtz and John Cena) to stop the deflowering at all costs. The post- Bridesmaids era has seen Hollywood awaken to the reality that women can carry a raunchy comedy just as well as men - yet while it’s hard to fault their belated enthusiasm for ribald female-led laughs, the results haven’t always been as easy to celebrate. Get yourself a ticket, but you might want to skip the popcorn - the less sound you make during this movie, the better. Filmgoers who are allergic to horror may want to steer clear, but for everyone else, A Quiet Place is shaping up to be one of the year’s best-reviewed wide releases, as well as yet another example of our ongoing genre renaissance. Our protagonists have managed to carve out a hardscrabble life for their family, but Blunt’s character is heavily pregnant - all of which lays the foundation for a movie that pretty much every critic has lauded as a smart, wickedly frightening good time at the movies. Starring alongside real-life wife Emily Blunt, Krasinski (who also co-wrote the screenplay) plunges audiences into a post-apocalyptic world where the human race has been largely wiped out by a horde of insect-like aliens, and the last remaining stragglers must keep silent in order to remain undetected by the invaders. We get to see the opposite in action with A Quiet Place, the latest directorial outing from Office vet John Krasinski. Every discerning horror fan understands the key role sound plays in a great genre flick - although it’s usually pointed out as a way of highlighting a filmmaker’s lazy reliance on cheap jolts in place of true elemental dread.
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