Let’s start with a popcorn warning. If you’re bringing your usual tub of multiplex popcorn into "A Quiet Place,” just be aware that you’ll be hearing every single crunch.
That’s because much of John Krasinski’s ingeniously creepy new film, in which he stars alongside his real-life better half, Emily Blunt, takes place in virtual silence. This is a movie about a world where noise gets you killed. In fact, if you ate popcorn IN the movie, you’d quickly be dead. Unless you were standing by a waterfall. More on that in a minute.
Krasinski, in his third feature outing as director, has a lot going for him here: an inventive premise (was it dreamed up by some vengeful librarian?