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Action, Thriller, Science Fiction 85 min PG-13
Rotten Tomatoes78%Metacritic64IMDb
Some thing has found us.
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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Unpretentious, plot-driven, overwhelming and bleak.
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“Cloverfield” is nominally a monster movie, but mostly it’s a feature-length gimmick.
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27 profiled raters. Loved most by The Provocateurs; disliked most by The Genre Devotees.
If you loved this film, the television, the book, the music, the game.
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