A Quiet Place.

Rating: 6/10 (3 May 2018)

'A Quiet Place' attempts to take the interesting themes of the existential and isolating loneliness of deafness and the body horror of pregnancy with its threat of childbirth pain and/or complications to create something poignant and compelling, but with the exception of a couple of bold moments, the film mostly fails due to some lazy and derivative horror filmmaking conventions (completely unscary post-Giger CGI, a myriad of obnoxious jump-scares, overbearing 'emotional' music cues, etc.).
Despite the hype, this is yet another merely competent modern horror film, an allegory about how scary parenthood is, which is a painfully heteronormative and middle-class thing to get horrified over, when you think about it.
However, this is certainly one way of getting around the persistent problem of atrocious dialogue in modern film -- just have everyone keep it buttoned.