Movie Review by Fr. Tom Condon, O.P.

Due to a very busy Lent and Easter season, I’ve missed some movies that have been released in the last month, including some faith-based films I wanted to see. I hope I can catch up with them!

Meanwhile, I did have the chance to see A Quiet Place, a suspenseful movie that has become a hit this spring. A Quiet Place begins with the scene of a family of five (Father, Mother, a hearing-impaired daughter and two young sons) scrounging through a deserted small town grocery store looking for food and supplies. The father (John Krasinski) puts his finger to his lips to remind the children to be silent. The audience soon learns that it is imperative that the family keep quiet or something terrible will happen. It doesn’t take long to find out what. Noise attracts terrible creatures, who look like aliens from the movie of the same name. These creatures, apparently blind, have wiped out all traces of civilization. This family looks to be the remnants of the human race, in this rural part of the U.S., if not beyond.
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