Lupita Nyong’o shines in ‘A Quiet Place: Day One’

“You need to stop following me,” says a woman who is as terrified of the beasts as anyone else. “I’m really scared, I don’t know what to do,” confesses a man as he trembles and follows her like a scared toddler.There was a certain magic in A Quiet Place (2018) and A Quiet Place Part II (2021), the first two films in this franchise (box office total $640M). Writer/director/producer/actor John Krasinski built an engaging storyline around a believable and bewildered family being hounded by deadly weird alien invaders. Beasts who were ultrasensitive to sound, and had destroyed many, leaving only a few survivors in certain outposts. How do you follow that up? With a compelling prequel by writer/director Michael Sarnoski (Pig), who’s making only his second feature film. It’s a gamble. A smart gamble. Sarnoski brings his own voice and vision to the trilogy. The final stages of cancer have put Samira (Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years A Slave), aka Sam, in a hospice care home. She’s the feisty one in her therapy group, often butting heads with the group’s leader, a nurse named Ruben (Alex Wolff). It’s a great surprise the day Ruben suggests they all go into New York...