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Genres:
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Mystery /
Sci-Fi /
Thriller
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Director:
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Matt Reeves
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Actors:
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Lizzy Caplan,
Odette Yustman,
Jessica Lucas,
Ben Feldman,
Kelvin Yu,
Anjul Nigam,
Margot Farley,
Elena Caruso,
Lili Mirojnick,
T.J. Miller,
Michael Stahl-David,
Mike Vogel,
Theo Rossi,
Brian Klugman,
Liza Lapira
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Duration:
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85 min.
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Rating:
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(7.4/10)142.5
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Plot Summary:
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Hold up Hawkins is deserved to up-anchor Fresh York as Japan and his friends bring forward him a strike party to see him off. But the festivities are hurriedly interrupted when a confusing non-spiritual luxuries suddenly starts attacking the city. With only a speedily-held camera Rob and a some of his friends set out to do a bunk the eradication.
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Cloverfield
Claudia Puig
Apparently, size doesn't matter after all. A massive and malevolent force threatens New York City, but it's seen only in fleeting glimpses through the tiny lens of an amateur videographer. And we're hooked. What is plaguing the city? Terrorists? Aliens? A presidential candidate run amok? We won't tell. Though it has a gimmicky high concept, Cloverfield is a surprisingly gripping thriller. Employing a pseudo-documentary handheld camera style, it offers a fresh spin on the monster movie genre. Think Godzilla meets The Blair Witch Project, with a Gen Y Big Chill element thrown in. Then add homages to Alien, Independence Day and War of the Worlds. The attractive cast is made up of relative unknowns, and initially we get ...
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In today's media-saturated, internet-focused world, it's rare for a movie to arrive without rumours, spoilers and speculation - but things were very different with Cloverfield.
Six months before its 2008 release, at which point the digitally shot movie had only just begun filming, nobody knew anything about Cloverfield (then going by the name '01-18-08', or just 'Untitled JJ Abrams Project'), other than it being the latest project from Bad Robot, the company of 'Lost' creator Abrams. Then the trailer arrived, an attention-grabbing teaser that still didn't carry the movie's title, and suddenl...
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Kevin Crust When the running times of most popcorn movies lurching well past two hours on the way to three these days, it's not often that we're left wanting more. But that's precisely the response induced by the 21st century monster movie Cloverfield as it clocks in at a brisk 85 minutes (and that's including 10 minutes of end credits).
Cloverfield begins with a found video, time-stamped by the Department of Defense, with the ominous notation that it was located at the site "formerly known as Central Park." The home-movie footage that follows is supposed to have been shot with a camcorder passed among friends -- a frightening, of-the-moment ramble somewhat undercut by the same point-of-view gambit that allows the film to be fleet-of-foot and modestly budgeted....
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