Cloverfield

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Cloverfield

PG-13

Released Jan 18, 2008

1h 25m

Sci-Fi

Mystery & Thriller

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Horror

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As a group of New Yorkers (Michael Stahl-David, Mike Vogel, Odette Yustman) enjoy a going-away party, little do they know that they will soon face the most terrifying night of their lives. A creature the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city, leaving death and destruction in its wake. Using a handheld video camera, the friends record their struggle to survive as New York crumbles around them.

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Critics Consensus

A sort of Blair Witch Project crossed with Godzilla, Cloverfield is economically paced, stylistically clever, and filled with scares.

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Deborah Ross

The Spectator

Cloverfield is tiresome, dumb and horrid, and just in case you didn't get that I'll say it again: this film is tiresome, dumb and horrid. Don't go.

Aug 23, 2018

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David Fear

Time Out

Rated: 3/5

Nov 18, 2011

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Jordan Hoffman

UGO

For gasps and thrills and movie monster mayhem, the film is a success. It's not flawless, but if you shove that aside, I guarantee you that you will have a gas at the theater.

Rated: A-

Aug 14, 2009

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

Director Matt Reeves and writer Drew Goddard effectively tap into that decade’s post-9/11 anxieties.

Rated: 3/4

Feb 15, 2023

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Stephen Silver

Tilt Magazine

Remains one of the better entrees in the early-aughts found-footage boom (15th anniversary)

Rated: 4/5

Feb 10, 2023

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Cory Woodroof

For the Win (USA Today)

Fifteen years after Cloverfield‘s release, the terrorizing monster movie remains one of the best examples of studio ingenuity, taking a worn-out genre and infusing it with something hyper-relevant and truly unpredictable.

Jan 25, 2023

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Zander B

This is still one of my all time favorite horror movies. Start to finish you feel like all the helpless citizens running for their lives and it's terrifying. So many memorable sequences it's underrated af.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

04/16/25

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Madam D

Excellent sci fi monster flick. I liked it despite the found footage genre.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

04/13/25

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T K

My favorite "monster" movie as well as found-footage type film of all time. Feels very real (great acting performances, a very realistic depiction of Manhattan and thus many scenes feeling too reminiscent of 9/11) and it somehow holds up in time.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/05/25

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Audience Member

Cloverfield surprisingly bites your soul with shocks of no other, having us witness the terror from below rather than above.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/08/25

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Fachrul Ulum F

The funny thing is you follow your friend to rescue her girlfriend 🤣

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/08/25

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Josh A

This is just an absolutely amazing found footage movie. It's basically a monster movie but from the perspective of the people who live in the city. It starts off normally, with a party, and then around 20 minutes in turns into an immersive nightmare. So let's start with the party. It effectively introduces the characters and explains what they're like and what their relationships are. It's a great way to start the movie, giving us a sense of the characters, which are the most important part of the movie. Then, the main part of the movie happens. When Clover wakes up and wreaks havoc. It's brilliant. It's entertaining, nightmarish and the ending is brilliant. It's tragic, but brilliant. There's a chance the couple survived, though, as the camera survived, so who says they didn't survive? Maybe I'm just in denial. I don't know. Overall, amazing movie.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/07/25

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Synopsis

As a group of New Yorkers (Michael Stahl-David, Mike Vogel, Odette Yustman) enjoy a going-away party, little do they know that they will soon face the most terrifying night of their lives. A creature the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city, leaving death and destruction in its wake. Using a handheld video camera, the friends record their struggle to survive as New York crumbles around them.

Director: Matt Reeves
Producer: J.J. Abrams, Bryan Burk
Screenwriter: Drew Goddard
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Production Co: Bad Robot, Paramount Pictures
Rating: PG-13 (Terror|Disturbing Images|Violence)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller, Action, Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 18, 2008, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 1, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA): $80.0M
Runtime: 1h 25m
Sound Mix: Dolby SRD, DTS, SDDS
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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