Cloverfield

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  • Opened January 18, 2008 
  • 1 hr 25 min
  • PG-13 | violence, terror and disturbing images

  • Parents: Common Sense Media says Iffy for 13+. More on child suitability

  • Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most surreal, horrifying event of their lives. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Lizzy Caplan, Jessica Lucas, T.J. Miller, Michael Stahl-David, Mike Vogel
  • Director: Matt Reeves
  • Genres: Action/Adventure, Comedy, Drama

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Cloverfield Movie Review

by Asianfreak

91 out of 100 It's loud and shaky but it's an amazing experience to watch these characters in the peril and the terrifying moments that will make you jump out of your seat....

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by Myronhugheskpt

I'm taking the time to write this review now because I can finally look back at this movie and not be completely P.O.'ed. Halfway through the movie *SPOILER* it became obvious that everyone would die...

So-so
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by Fire_Bird

I thought this movie was incomplete it left me wondering, what happened??? Otherwise a good movie. But there is a second one coming soon...

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Critic Reviews

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Entertainment Weekly
| Lisa Schwarzbaum

Cloverfield, a surreptitiously subversive, stylistically clever little gem of an entertainment disguised, under its deadpan-neutral title, as a dumb Gen-YouTube monster movie, makes the convincingly chilling argument that the world will end -- or, at least, Manhattan will crumble -- with a bang and a whimper. Read full review

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San Francisco Chronicle
| Peter Hartlaub

Produced by "Lost" and "Alias" mastermind J.J. Abrams, Cloverfield has been one of the more interesting experiments in large-scale guerrilla filmmaking. Read full review

75
Boston Globe
| Ty Burr

Cloverfield is content to be a creature feature; that's what makes it bearable and what keeps it from greatness. The genre, not the script, does the psychological heavy lifting. Read full review

75
Chicago Tribune
| Michael Phillips

It’s dumb but quick and dirty and effectively brusque, dispensing with niceties such as character. Read full review

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Michael Stahl-David and Odette Yustman in "Cloverfield."