Cloverfield Rating

This page contains ratings from critics and critical websites for the monster film, Cloverfield. Cloverfield is a feature film from Paramount Pictures about five people attempting to escape from New York City during an attack from a giant rampaging monster.

Fast Facts

1. Theatrical Release: January 18, 2007
2. DVD Release: April 22, 2008
3. MPAA Rating: PG-13
4. Running Time: 84 minutes
5. Producer: J.J. Abrams
6. Director: Matt Reeves
7. Screenplay: Drew Goddard
8. Working titles: "Slusho", "The Parasite", "Monstrous"
9. Cast:
   1. Michael Stahl-David
   2. T.J. Miller
   3. Jessica Lucas
   4. Odette Yustman
   5. Lizzy Caplan
   6. Mike Vogel

Review Quotes

• Roger Ebert: "Mercifully, at 84 minutes the movie is even shorter than its originally alleged 90-minute running time; how much visual shakiness can we take? And yet, all in all, it is an effective film, deploying its special effects well and never breaking the illusion that it is all happening as we see it."

• Rotten Tomatoes Consensus: "A sort of Blair Witch Project crossed with Godzilla, Cloverfield is economically paced, stylistically clever, and filled with scares."

• Entertainment Weekly: "...a surreptitiously subversive, stylistically clever little gem of an entertainment..."

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