Fresh
The mechanism is the message in Cloverfield, a movie so aluminum-sleek, ultra-portable, and itsy-bitsy sexy, it's amazing Steve Jobs didn't pull it out of an envelope at Macworld.
Nathan Lee, Village Voice
Cloverfield
Some thing has found us.
2008 · 1h 25m · PG-13
Action, Science Fiction, Thriller
Directed by
Matt Reeves
Overview
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.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
78%
Tomatometer
Fresh
I had a lot of fun with this inside-out take on the monster movie.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
Rotten
Under the modern flummery, behind the faux amateurism and the handheld shudder, Cloverfield is a vastly old-fashioned piece of work, creaking with hilarious contrivance.
Anthony Lane, New Yorker
Fresh
The fleeting, incomplete glimpses of the monster early on prove the old dictum of B-movie auteur Val Lewton that a momentary image can have greater impact than a prolonged one.
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Rotten
Maybe we now live in a world where we record the moment first and feel it later. If that's the case, Cloverfield leaves us waiting to feel.
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
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