Cloverfield
Some thing has found us.
Some thing has found us.
Action, Science Fiction, Thriller
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2008
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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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Runtime:
85 min
Release date:
15 Jan 2008
Country:
US
Languages:
Russian, English
Budget:
$25,000,000
Revenue:
$170,764,026
Awards:
5 wins & 34 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
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,
22 Jan 2008
fresh:
I had a lot of fun with this inside-out take on the monster movie.
– Richard Roeper,
Ebert & Roeper,
22 Jan 2008
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,
22 Jan 2008
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,
22 Jan 2008
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,
18 Jan 2008