Cloverfield

4.00
    Cloverfield
    2008

    Synopsis

    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.

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    Cast

    • Lizzy CaplanMarlena Diamond
    • Jessica LucasLily Ford
    • T.J. MillerHudson 'Hud' Platt
    • Michael Stahl-DavidRob Hawkins
    • Mike VogelJason Hawkins
    • Odette AnnableBeth McIntyre
    • Anjul NigamBodega Cashier
    • Margot FarleyJenn
    • Theo RossiAntonio
    • Brian KlugmanCharlie

    Recommendations

    • 83

      Entertainment Weekly

      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.
    • 75

      ReelViews

      Cloverfield's gritty, in-your-face style is uncompromising. If you're looking for a nice, clean movie filmed with a steadycam, you'll have to look elsewhere.
    • 75

      Chicago Tribune

      It’s dumb but quick and dirty and effectively brusque, dispensing with niceties such as character.
    • 75

      Premiere

      It's not the life-changing movie experience the intense viral marketing attention would lead you to think it is, but its decision to focus on ground-level humanism rather than epic disaster is what separates it from the pack.
    • 75

      Seattle Post-Intelligencer

      When the monster shows up, pretty early in the film, everything becomes much more interesting, as it smashes buildings in midtown Manhattan like some sort of Rudy Giuliani, 9/11 nightmare.
    • 70

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Think "Godzilla Unplugged" -- with chillingly effective results.
    • 50

      Variety

      Despite its indie-flavored shooting style, first-rate visual effects, reasonable intensity factor, nihilistic attitude and post-9/11 anxiety overlay, this punchy sci-fier is, in the end, not much different from all the marauding creature features that have come before it.
    • 50

      L.A. Weekly

      While the entertainment value of Cloverfield is highly negotiable, it's clear that Abrams has consciously aligned himself with those filmmakers who have used the template of a grade-B monster/invasion movie -- Don Siegel, George Romero, Steven Spielberg -- as a stealth vessel for social commentary.

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