John Krasinski’s “A Quiet Place” has hit theaters across the globe to suck the noise out of all it’s audience members. Krasinski, who is most well known as Jim from NBC’s “The Office” is trying his hand at directing once again. He directed two films prior but “A Quiet Place” is his first big feature film. He also writes and stars in the film alongside his wife, Emily Blunt. As mentioned previously, Krasinski has tackled directing before in “The Hollars” and “Brief Interviews with Hideous Men”. For “A Quiet Place” being his third feature film it promises a bright future for Krasinski to tackle more projects. The most surprising aspects of the film wasn’t always the effective terror put on display, but the intimacy that is captured with the lens. It might not always be subtle work like a Kubrick or Fincher would accomplish, but Krasinski is spry and ripe with fruitful inspiration for film-making. The exposition is handled flawlessly and is achieved with simplicity, once again proving that more does not equal better. The film’s opening minutes felt like Krasinski had been directing for decades and knew which shot to take and how to take it. Outside of inspired camerawork, the most inspiring decision made by Krasinski was casting Millicent Simmonds as his daughter Regan. Millicent’s character is deaf and in the real world she is actually deaf as well. Krasinski made it adamant they casted someone who was actually deaf in the role because he didn’t want anyone to have to fake that absence of one of our five senses. This choice paid off in dividends and Millicent delivers an outstanding and emotional performance. She’s a powerful chain that holds this family together, but it’s Emily Blunt who ends up being the anchor. Blunt is well known as being one of the greatest actresses of our generation but the work she pulls off here is breathtaking. To simply understand how well she does you’d have to see it to believe it, and words on a document would do the performance no justice. In the end, Michael Bay ended up producing one of the finest films we’ll see all year. John Krasinski is on his A game in front of and behind the camera, and his knack for visual thrills will have you shaking in your seat. The smallest and most suppressed issues with the film stem from brief encounters that feel as if they should have been extended to really get your heart pumping. In doing so it would achieve a truly heightened level of psychological thrills on multiple levels. The film plays as one big act in a narrative as well and some moments of transition would have really given the audience member a bit more meat to gnaw on. Other than the most silent of issues, “A Quiet Place” is a 90 minute romp of vicious exhilaration injected with breathtaking cinematography, heart pounding close encounters, and a soulful intimacy that is carefully stroked with the most precise of brushes. “A Quiet Place” gets an 85/100