He teaches at the USC School of Cinematic Arts and appears regularly on Reelz Channel and Turner Classic Movies.
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He is best known for his widely-used reference work Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide and its companion volume Leonard Maltin’s Classic Movie Guide, now in its third edition, as well as his thirty-year run on television’s Entertainment Tonight. Leonard Maltin is one of the world’s most respected film critics and historians. Krasinski learned what worked the first time around (in the script he wrote with Bryan Woods and Scott Beck) and has applied those lessons to this crowd-pleaser. Like any sequel it can’t offer a fresh core concept…but it can extend the thrills and chills without seeming forced or contrived. Krasinski has given them a marathon of suspenseful showdowns, all of which depend upon us relating to their plight and believing their decision-making skills.Ī Quiet Place Part II deserves to succeed because it’s so good-not just because it’s coasting on an earlier hit. Ferrari and Nicole Kidman’s boy in The Undoing), but they outdo themselves here. We’ve seen the two youthful actors do splendid work before, Simmonds in the original film and Jupe in a handful of other parts (like Christian Bale’s son in Ford v. Each segment keeps you on the edge of your seat until it runs its course and you have a chance to breathe then we’re on to the next. That’s a tribute to how well Krasinski has crafted his screenplay. I didn’t watch A Quiet Place Part II with a notepad to mark each “act” with a beginning and end-point, so I can’t tell you how many set-pieces this briskly-paced movie contains. A family friend played by Cillian Murphy isn’t convinced that humanity is worth saving, but his cynicism is undone by what he and the kids are able to accomplish. Calm and cool-headed as ever, even without her husband to protect her and her family, Emily Blunt sets a great example for her children, an adolescent son (Noah Jupe) who’s braver then he realizes and a daughter (Millicent Simmonds) who refuses to treat her deafness as a shortcoming. Writer-director John Krasinski wastes no time in revealing the spindly alien creatures who caused such havoc last time… and gives us ample time to examine the disgusting details of their anatomy.īut it’s the human factor–amazing ingenuity and a dogged refusal to surrender-that again takes center stage. Sequels don’t usually get my juices going but this follow-up to the 2018 hit movie makes all the right moves.