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  Review by esther 11

  Still the best film ever made about 9/11 -- about the 21st century -- Cloverfield is an unparalleled expressionist masterpiece. People talked about how it ripped its "don't show the monster" technique from Jaws, but it's closer to Lovecraft than anything else. Furthermore, it's an idea wholly indebted to the film's own era. We're afraid of what we don't know, what we can't see. Films like War of the Worlds come close to touching on post-9/11 anxieties so potently, but the first-person perspective gives Cloverfield the edge. Putting us in a single subjective point-of-view accentuates the terror (emphasis on terror) of everything we can't see or understand. The uncontrolled images create these chaotic spaces and incomprehensible geographies. It's an event…

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  Review by tawniੈ✩‧₊˚ ★★★½

  the best part in this movie is when tj miller shuts the fuck up

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  Review by Josh Lewis ★★★★ 5

  "It's about moments, man. That's all that matters."

  Much has been said already about the film's expert handling of post-9/11 anxieties. The way it lingers on people standing still in the wake of disaster, shocked & aimless, looking around, taking cellphone pictures as they try and comprehend an event they'll never fully understand; as reflected in Reeves' filmmaking, they'll never have anything more than a few, brief pieces of information sans context. But the thing that's managed to stick with me about this film many years later is its fleeting optimism. The most brilliant gesture Reeves & Goddard make here is the choice to have the footage of that terrifying day recorded over top of a tape that documents a joyful & intimate…

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  Review by gaia ★★½ 1

  camera battery goals

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  Review by SilentDawn ★★★★½ 3

  87/100

  Ever since Gojira, the kaiju/giant monster genre has explored a variety of socially conscious themes - often dealing with the aftermath of warfare and the chaos of a current political climate - but nothing has come close to the pure exhilaration of Cloverfield and its horrifying minute-by-minute depiction of an unknown terror ripping through structures and desolating any semblance of order. For a majority of its brisk run time, every frame is as unstable as the crumbling buildings and the shocked but lost citizens wandering the city streets, and it makes the quiet, endearing glimpses of a mostly taped-over document even more empathetic and heartbreaking. These are actual, genuine characters that the viewer ends up following; annoying, selfish, insecure,…

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  Review by Erik 🎼 ★★★★

  if an alien interrupted a party for me I would sit it's alien ass down and make it wait til I had my fill of attention for the night

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  Review by adam ツ ★★★½ 7

  Moral of the story, don't live in New York.

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  Review by Casper ★★★½ 5

  Without a doubt, Cloverfield is horrifying. The everlasting mayhem is what made it so incredible in my eyes. I don't naturally get shivers from found footage movies, though this one gave me the chills

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  Review by Ryan ★★★★ 1

  The most unrealistic thing in this is the camera’s battery life.

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  Review by aksel 2

  okay this movie is a little bit of a slay

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  Review by adambolt ★★★★

  TJ Miller scarier than the monster fr

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  Review by SilentDawn ★★★★½

  Cloverfield is one of the greatest examples of the found-footage genre, maybe even THE greatest. Natural and well-done performances, a genuine sense of chaos and paranoia, moments of frightening and truly disturbing imagery, and above all; one amazing creature messing everything up.

  The Awesome: After each viewing of Cloverfield, I am oddly moved yet shaken to the core. I think that's what the film does best, mixing wonderful character moments with sequences that could easily recall the day of 9/11. There's even a line in this film that someone says, wondering if another terrorist attack is taking place. This film is smarter than you think it is, ratcheting up tension while still adding some food for thought.

  The Terrible: Some…