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(1 - 50) of 56 OFCS Rating: 75% Fresh Page   12   > Next "once the film has fully run its course there is little left to take away with you beyond rattled nerves, a mild sense of nausea, and the uneasy suspicion that the true horror of 9/11 has just been reduced to a dumb-assed entertainment."   musicOMH.com   Anton Bitel B+ "It's an event movie in January, and when was the last time we had one of those? Experience it on the big screen with an enthusiastic crowd."   FromTheBalcony   Bill Clark 4.5/5 "Cloverfield is the first great film of 2008."   PopMatters   Bill Gibron D+ "Basically a 70-minute YouTube video, Cloverfield has all the head-rattling jolt and dramatic verisimilitude of a prank phone call."   DVDTalk.com   Brian Orndorf "For all its popularity, self-documentation's purpose and meaning remain elusive."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 5/5 "Raises the bar for monster movies to Statue of Liberty heights."   eFilmCritic.com   David Cornelius B+ "Blair Witch meets Godzilla in this hugely enjoyable shake-fest."   EDGE Boston   David Foucher 2.5/4 "...a sporadically effective yet undeniably uneven piece of work that clearly would've benefited from a little less excitement surrounding its release..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair D "Despite being only 84 minutes, it seemed overlong and padded."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 4/4 "Alarming and nothing short of terrifying. Cloverfield is the year's first unadulterated masterpiece. There has never been anything quite like it."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman A- "Better than any American monster movie in years."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider B- "It's a hell of a visceral experience -- but it's a purely visceral experience, apparently to the point of causing some viewers to vomit. Unless you're one of those unfortunate few, you'll soon forget the details."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov 4/4 "Simply put, I haven't had so much fun in the movies in years..."   Cinema Crazed   Felix Vasquez Jr. D "The only thing surprising about the picture turns out to be how unsurprising it is. Also--despite massive special effects--how boring."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 3.5/4 "Armed to the teeth with an ingenious marketing campaign that sent internet geeks scrambling to their keyboards months ago, the ambitious Cloverfield is only moderately successful as a monster movie, but extremely provocative in many other ways."   Film and Felt   Gabe Leibowitz A "Cloverfield is about terrorism's human effects, not its spectacle."   Cinepinion   Henry Stewart 3/4 "This film takes you into the heart of the maelstrom and leaves you there."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli "The viewer spends huge chunks of the movie battling motion sickness."   Sci-Fi Movie Page   James O'Ehley 8/10 "Click here to read review"   vj.net.ua   Jaroslav Vishtaljuk 6/10 "As a product of our globally-aware disaster-ridden times, Cloverfield touches upon interesting themes ... But it doesn't do much more than just glaze over [them]."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Jeffrey Chen 38/100 "Ultimately a feature-length tease, the movie remarkably insubstantial and uninvolving for something that tries so desperately to live in the moment."   MovieMartyr.com   Jeremy Heilman 3/4 "By giving Godzilla the Blair Witch treatment, producer J.J. Abrams has created a monster movie for the YouTube generation, with impressive - if not entirely scary - results."   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito 5/10 "...once past the monster's initial attack on the city, Cloverfield isn't very scary or very suspenseful or even very interesting."   DVDTown.com   John J. Puccio 3.5/5 "Dinei mathimata (poy tha prepei n' arhisoyn na didaskontai) gia to pos na ftiakseis aera kopanisto gia 30 ekatommyria, kai na ton poyliseis shedon gia ta dipla sto proto sabbatokyriako."   Movies for the Masses   Joseph Proimakis 5/5 "Nothing feels choreographed or contrived %u2013 every shot of disaster is found footage or dumb luck, every glimpse of the threat is fleeting and often unsatisfying. This is, simply put, awesome. To make things better, the movie is intensely character-d"   Cinerina   Karina Montgomery "Quoth the false prophet: "It's only a movie.""   UGO   Keith Uhlich 3.0/4.0 "If you're looking for a crowded popcorn film experience at the movies without any kind of intellectual or emotional investment, it's a wonderful ride."   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson 3/5 "If the monsters weren't in the scene, I kept wondering when they would show up so they could eat more people."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr "Scenes featuring the monster are oddly the most realistic."   Pretentious Musings   Kevin Koehler B "clearly a reflection of post 9/11 fears that boasts terrific effects...a convincing ride if not a terrifically ground-breaking one."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 2/4 "Despite the lengthy party sequence that introduces the cast, these people are less characters than easy-on-the-eyes conceits: Young, hip, essentially interchangeable and willfully stupid. What's worse, though, is that the film is all surface."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh 3.5/4 "A time capsule of our current fears displaced onto our nightmares."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik 7/10 "A realistic depiction of what it would be like if a giant monster really did attack Manhattan. The photography is jarring, but not as jarring as the realism."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Mark R. Leeper "It's hard to imagine how anyone will top this. It's magnificent in its harsh reality. It is the monster movie remade for the 21st-century, post-9/11 world."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 2.5/5 "Think Blair Witch meets Godzilla, and since that isn't the first or last time you'll read that comparison, think of a movie that results in something less profound."   Bronsonfive   Michael Ferraro 4.5/5 "One of the most exciting and frightening sci-fi/horror films of the last decade."   Goatdog's Movies   Michael W. Phillips, Jr. 3/4 "Cloverfield is a real 21st century kind of movie; it's a horror film for the You Tube generation. It's also bleak and scary."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan B+ "A clever premise keeps the audience literally off-balance."   Beliefnet   Nell Minow 2/4 "Reeves's film works hard to negate any noteworthy meaning from its mayhem."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 4/5 "Uma boa surpresa para aqueles que acreditam que o Cinema pode funcionar não apenas como diversão ou instrumento de reflexão, mas também como termômetro histórico de sua própria época."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 3.5/5 "Abrams' intimate POV renders everything that much more harrowing (or "nauseating," depending on your shaky-cam tolerance and the general condition of your inner ear)."   Film Threat   Pete Vonder Haar 4/5 "Basically, it is a gimmick movie in which the premise is pretty much the entire show. That said, it is perhaps the most sensationally effective gimmick movie to come around since "The Blair Witch Project""   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 4/5 "Even if there's nothing new going on here, the style and quality of this film injects a terrific sense of terror into the old monster movie formula."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 4/5 "In the monster-attack scenes, the movie's style -- the apocalypse barely glimpsed -- is chilling: We're seeing essentially what we would see if we were there."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves B- "I, for one, would be using the F-bomb far more gratuitously if faced with a possible encounter with a creature that could well swallow me whole."   Projection Booth   Rob Humanick B "When freed from unreasonable expectations, it turns out to be a modest little gas."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux B "As insipid as the characters are, you do tend to get caught up in their plight."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten C+ "The techs and the promise of scares is the draw for Cloverfield. Personally, I would wait for the DVD and rent it (but only on a big screen TV)."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford "Cloverfield brings chaos and terror in one of the most memorable American monster films in some time."   Movie Views   Ryan Cracknell 4/5 "A robust 80-minute burst of barely-controlled mayhem. Monster fans will love it."   FEARnet   Scott Weinberg  (1 - 50) of 56 OFCS Rating: 75% Fresh Page   12   > Next