All kinds of film can fail (or be good) both at their genre, whatever it is, and at basic style and storytelling. For example, A Quiet Place maintains tension w

All kinds of film can fail (or be good) both at their genre, whatever it is, and at basic style and storytelling. For example, A Quiet Place maintains tension well, but it squanders its coherence and ruins a potentially great novel premise with pointless music and improbably contrived opportunities to let the characters speak.