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Shut up and spread the word: 'A Quiet Place' is a thrillingly intelligent monster movie

Real-life husband and wife John Krasinski and Emily Blunt play a married couple with three children living in the aftermath of a horrifying alien invasion in "A Quiet Place."

I can't recall the last time I found myself caring as intently for the characters in a horror picture as I did for the family in "A Quiet Place," the sensationally gripping and emotional new alien-invasion thriller from the actor and writer-director John Krasinski. The sheer levels of sympathetic adrenaline he summons here - of pure, relentless, moment-to-moment anxiety - are nothing short of remarkable, especially since the terrors that have befallen this family are at once so ludicrous, so vague and so inexplicable.

The short version: A race of lethally fast and sharp-jawed creatures

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