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Cloverfield (2008) Rank 4 Reviews
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Star-Democrat (Easton, MD) (Greg Maki)
There has never been a film of its kind so intense, so personal, so real. ...read the complete Cloverfield movie review at Star-Democrat (Easton, MD) (Greg Maki)
eFilmCritic.com (William Goss)
Since its instantly iconic teaser trailer proved to be the inadvertent highlight of 'Transformers' last summer, the mystery surrounding the monster movie 'Cloverfield' (yes, that's the real title, folks) has only grown at an exponential rate over ...read the complete Cloverfield movie review at eFilmCritic.com (William Goss)
eFilmCritic.com (David Cornelius)
It seems impossible to properly discuss "Cloverfield" without first mentioning the hype. Internet-savvy readers are likely aware of the buzz that’s blanketed this film since last July, when a brilliant teaser trailer played before sneak previews ...read the complete Cloverfield movie review at eFilmCritic.com (David Cornelius)
Mike Bracken's Horror Films (Mike Bracken)
is an intense and engaging monster movie that may very well breathe life back into a dead genre while demonstrating that there's fertile soil left to be tilled in this particular cinematic field. ...read the complete Cloverfield movie review at Mike Bracken's Horror Films (Mike Bracken)
Empire Magazine [UK]
FilmJudge (David Mercier)
TheMovieBoy.com (Dustin Putman)
is the year's first unadulterated masterpiece. There has never been anything quite like it. ...read the complete Cloverfield movie review at TheMovieBoy.com (Dustin Putman)
eFilmCritic.com (David Cornelius)
Raises the bar for monster movies to Statue of Liberty heights. ...read the complete Cloverfield movie review at eFilmCritic.com (David Cornelius)
Film School Rejects (Brian Gibson)
Feo Amante (Kelly Parks)
I watched it at a midnight showing, it's now 2:25 A.M., and if I could go see it again right now I would. ...read the complete Cloverfield movie review at Feo Amante (Kelly Parks)
Sun Publications (Chicago, IL) (Josh Larsen)
...rescues the Godzilla genre from the realm of kitsch. ...read the complete Cloverfield movie review at Sun Publications (Chicago, IL) (Josh Larsen)
The Cinema Source (Rocco Passafuime)
Cinepinion (Henry Stewart)
is about terrorism's human effects, not its spectacle. ...read the complete Cloverfield movie review at Cinepinion (Henry Stewart)
Cinema Crazed (Felix Vasquez Jr.)
Simply put, I haven't had so much fun in the movies in years... ...read the complete Cloverfield movie review at Cinema Crazed (Felix Vasquez Jr.)
The New Zealand Herald (Russell Baillie)
Well it's good to see the price of some things is going down - the price of wrecking New York in a movie has dropped markedly in recent years, thanks to Cloverfield. Instead of the hundreds of millions represented by the likes of King Kong, I am Legend, ...read the complete Cloverfield movie review at The New Zealand Herald (Russell Baillie)
The Age
The key line in Cloverfield comes so fast you almost miss it. As New York city is being pulverised by something very large and very angry, an anonymous foot ...read the complete Cloverfield movie review at The Age
The King's Room (Paul Perkins)
A Outstanding and Unique Film, This Is Filmmaking at Its ...read the complete Cloverfield movie review at The King's Room (Paul Perkins)
The Cinema Source (Rocco Passafuime)
MovieWeb (Adam Frazier)
From producer J. J. Abrams, creator of TV series such as "Felicity," "Alias," and the perplexing hit "Lost" comes "Cloverfield," a super-secretive thrill ride with enough turbulence to leave you in a weeklong daze. Abrams and writer Drew Goddard ("Lost") ...read the complete Cloverfield movie review at MovieWeb (Adam Frazier)
WaffleMovies.com (Willie Waffle)
unlike almost any movie you have seen before to become a raw, realistic and gut wrenching experience ...read the complete Cloverfield movie review at WaffleMovies.com (Willie Waffle)
The Movie Boy (Dustin Putman)
One of the most treasured capabilities of cinema—a power too seldom achieved—is to so thoroughly engulf audiences that they are made to believe the unthinkable. An even better film is one able to seemingly plant the viewer in the bodies of the ...read the complete Cloverfield movie review at The Movie Boy (Dustin Putman)
Boston Herald (James Verniere)
New York City is the new Tokyo in “Cloverfield,” a “Godzilla” for the YouTube generation. ...read the complete Cloverfield movie review at Boston Herald (James Verniere)
The Onion A.V. Club
The shocks come from nowhere, interrupting an evening previously distinguished only by garden-variety personal drama. Due to leave for a job in Japan, Michael Stahl-David spends one last night with his friends, thanks to a surprise party thrown by his ...read the complete Cloverfield movie review at The Onion A.V. Club
The Land of Eric (Eric D. Snider)
The film-it-yourself YouTube generation has inspired its first monster movie in "Cloverfield," a short, intense, and scary flick that plays out the way "Godzilla" would have if it had been shot with a bystander's ...read the complete Cloverfield movie review at The Land of Eric (Eric D. Snider)
IGN Movies UK (Orlando Parfitt)
Feels like one big, masterfully executed experiment in upping the ante in audience manipulation, and it works brilliantly. ...read the complete Cloverfield movie review at IGN Movies UK (Orlando Parfitt)
FirstShowing.net (Alex Billington)
Finally after 6 months since the first discovery, it's here. J.J. Abrams and Matt Reeves have created a new classic monster movie. It is everything you expect and it's also nothing you expect. This movie feels so real that it's not even a movie, it's an ...read the complete Cloverfield movie review at FirstShowing.net (Alex Billington)
PopMatters (Bill Gibron)
is the first great film of 2008. ...read the complete Cloverfield movie review at PopMatters (Bill Gibron)
Goatdog's Movies (Michael W. Phillips, Jr.)
One of the most exciting and frightening sci-fi/horror films of the last decade. ...read the complete Cloverfield movie review at Goatdog's Movies (Michael W. Phillips, Jr.)
Onion AV Club (Keith Phipps)
It puts human faces on the victims of mass destruction, faces that might easily have been yours or mine, staring down the maw of something we don't understand. ...read the complete Cloverfield movie review at Onion AV Club (Keith Phipps)
Skiewed and Reviewed (Gareth J. Von Kallenbach)
"Cloverfield" is a refreshing take on what had become a very stale, monster on the loose genre. ...read the complete Cloverfield movie review at Skiewed and Reviewed (Gareth J. Von Kallenbach)
FirstShowing.net (Ken Evans)
Fantastica Daily (Mervius)
An incredibly fun, tense ride. Go see it. ...read the complete Cloverfield movie review at Fantastica Daily (Mervius)
State Journal-Register (Springfield, IL) (Nick Rogers)
The monster is every animal and no animal all at once, classifiable only as a behemoth your brain might conjure in REM sleep. A bonecrushing story of apocalyptic attack that's hard to shake, this is the stuff of primal nightmares. ...read the complete Cloverfield movie review at State Journal-Register (Springfield, IL) (Nick Rogers)
Washington Times (Christian Toto)
is a terrific monster movie for our age. ...read the complete Cloverfield movie review at Washington Times (Christian Toto)
Sean the Movie Guy (Sean McBride)
pure adrenaline-filled fun, and about a scary as you can get with a PG-13 rated monster flick. ...read the complete Cloverfield movie review at Sean the Movie Guy (Sean McBride)
Film and Felt (Gabe Leibowitz)
is only moderately successful as a monster movie, but extremely provocative in many other ways. ...read the complete Cloverfield movie review at Film and Felt (Gabe Leibowitz)
Screen Rant (Vic Holtreman)
Where does one start a review of a movie that has been the subject of so much attention and hype for months on end leading up to its ...read the complete Cloverfield movie review at Screen Rant (Vic Holtreman)
MovieWeb (Matt Sheehan)
There is one key aspect to the monster movie: the monster, of course. Is he scary? Does he have an unmatched power? Can he utter a terrifying howl? Is he able to move at a speed that seems like slow motion but everything else is moving at a normal speed? ...read the complete Cloverfield movie review at MovieWeb (Matt Sheehan)
Leonard Maltin's Picks
Cloverfield is essentially an old-fashioned monster-on-the-loose movie reinvented for the YouTube generation. It’s a clever and well-crafted piece of entertainment that, on the one hand, is utterly modern (the entire ...read the complete Cloverfield movie review at Leonard Maltin's Picks
RopeofSilicon (Brad Brevet)
A long review of Cloverfield is entirely unnecessary. This is a film that, more than any other, is a what you see is what you get kind of film. From the marketing you expect a monster movie and a monster movie is exactly what you get. It isn't told in ...read the complete Cloverfield movie review at RopeofSilicon (Brad Brevet)
The Cinema Source (Michael M. Dance)
I was fully expecting Cloverfield to be bad. There was all that hype – the title-less trailer attached to Transformers last summer, the cryptic websites, all the online conjecture – and all it amounted to, it seemed, was a generic monster movie that ...read the complete Cloverfield movie review at The Cinema Source (Michael M. Dance)
Wolfpack Productions (Sujit 'Chief' Chawla)
During Rob's going away party, what feels like an earthquake shakes the apartment. When Rob and his brother Jason, along with their friends Hud, Lily, and Marlena hit the streets, they see that New York is under attack. But by what? They soon find out as ...read the complete Cloverfield movie review at Wolfpack Productions (Sujit 'Chief' Chawla)
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (John Beifuss)
Suggests the influence of YouTube and (inevitably) 9/11, but actually belongs to the old-fashioned exploitation tradition as it uses state-of-the-art effects and ballyhoo to update B-movie subject matter for a new audience. ...read the complete Cloverfield movie review at Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (John Beifuss)
St. Paul Pioneer Press (Chris Hewitt)
Yes and quick! But I'll warn you: Of all the shakycam movies (such as "Blair Witch"), this one is so insistently tippy, it made me a bit nauseated. ...read the complete Cloverfield movie review at St. Paul Pioneer Press (Chris Hewitt)
MovieFreak.com (Sara M. Fetters)
Playing on our inherent fears fueled by a world caught up in a maelstrom of terrorism and war, Reeves and company place us squarely inside an unknowing scenario freakishly spiraling out of control. ...read the complete Cloverfield movie review at MovieFreak.com (Sara M. Fetters)
Christianity Today (Todd Hertz)
puts you on the ground level of a disaster: face-to-face with the dangers of this night. It's a fun, fast ride, but also poignant and strangely affecting. ...read the complete Cloverfield movie review at Christianity Today (Todd Hertz)
Mark Reviews Movies (Mark Dujsik)
Everyone wants to know what the monster in Cloverfield is or at least what it looks like. I can't tell you what it is, because the film wisely doesn't tell us either. I wouldn't dare tell you what it looks like, and it's not because people will despise ...read the complete Cloverfield movie review at Mark Reviews Movies (Mark Dujsik)
Reel.com
We should have seen this coming. Team Cloverfield dropped more than enough hints suggesting they knew what they were doing, from the inspired viral marketing campaign to the seeds of a deeper mythology planted on message boards. But with hype meters ...read the complete Cloverfield movie review at Reel.com
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