MOVIE REVIEW by Richard Roeper A QUIET PLACE PART II Three and a half stars Evelyn .... Emily Blunt Emmett .... Cillian Murphy Man on Island ... Djimon Hounsou
Paramount Pictures presents a film written and directed by John Krasinski. Rated PG-13 (for terror, violence and bloody/disturbing images). Running time: 97 minutes. Opens Thursday at local theaters.
We begin at the real beginning, with a cacophony of sounds.
The clanging of a bell announcing a new customer entering a pharmacy. Said customer s boots clomping along the floor. A loud WHOOOSHING noise as the customer tears off a plastic bag by the fruit stand. Cut to a Little League baseball game, with the sounds of bat meeting ball, parents and siblings cheering, friendly banter in the stands.
SERIES REVIEW by Richard Roeper SOLOS
The common theme of human isolation runs through all seven episodes of the Amazon anthology series Solos, and the finale includes references to some of the characters from previous installments but each story from showrunner David Weil is a stand-alone miniature film, and some are more effective than others, so we will review accordingly.
Morgan Freeman is the offscreen narrator who introduces the first six episodes before starring in the closer. He introduces each episode with a cryptic and existential question, e.g., If you traveled to the future, could you escape your past? and How far would you travel to find yourself? and Who decides who belongs in the world? You can almost see the ghost of Rod Serling of The Twilight Zone in the corner, cupping a cigarette and nodding his approval.