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Digital Video Has Become as Unreliable a Narrator as Celluloidnew
Hollywood has finally started to respond to the success of YouTube and other online video sites. Cloverfield, Redacted, and Diary of the Dead purported to be "found" videos, made by someone who didn't plan for their footage to wind up in a movie theater. But video looks too good to be "real."
Baltimore City Paper |
Martin L. Johnson |
06-24-2008 |
Movies
'Cloverfield': Cheap Thrillsnew
Upholding an old truth about horror films: the lower the budget, the better the scare.
Chicago Reader |
J.R. Jones |
01-28-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Cloverfield, Matt Reeves
'Cloverfield': Hipsters Under Siegenew
A bunch of TV auteurs fashion a mumblecore monster movie.
The Memphis Flyer |
Greg Akers |
01-25-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Cloverfield, Matt Reeves
'Cloverfield' Exploits National Tragedynew
The game in Cloverfield is to exploit media-memory of 9/11 and encourage moviegoers who were probably in grade school, and not quite senescent at the time, to pretend to relive that terror -- while feeling safely nostalgic.
New York Press |
Armond White |
01-24-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Cloverfield, Matt Reeves
When Monsters Attack!new
Cloverfield is thrilling, but proceed with caution if prone to motion sickness.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
01-23-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Cloverfield, Matt Reeves
Hollywood Product: 'Cloverfield'new
The bottom line: Cloverfield lives up to six months of online hype. Once the bad stuff starts going down, no one in the theater takes a breath for an hour. It even offers a fairly touching story of callow New Yorkers who find love and meaning in the teeth of disaster, amid all the holy-crap monster spectacle.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
01-23-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Cloverfield, Matt Reeves
'Cloverfield''s 9/11 Infelicitiesnew
Last weekend's $46-million top-grosser essentially says that its characters and, by extension, its paying audience, deserves to be killed: New Yorkers, Americans, Abrams' target demographic. I never thought I would see a movie made in the United States that was so gung-ho about 9/11.
Chicago Newcity |
Ray Pride |
01-23-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Cloverfield, Matt Reeves
'Cloverfield' is Just a Monster Movie, Right?new
There's no way Cloverfield could possibly be worth the to-do. Could it?
Colorado Springs Independent |
Maryann Johanson |
01-22-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Cloverfield, Matt Reeves
Ground Zeronew
Cloverfield turns attacking New York into mass-market Hollywood entertainment.
Baltimore City Paper |
Evan Guilfoyle |
01-22-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Cloverfield, Matt Reeves
'Cloverfield' is a Horrornew
It's taken just over six years for the idea of an escapist disaster movie set on the streets of New York City to go from pop-culture anathema to a hotly anticipated commercial commodity.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
01-18-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Cloverfield, Matt Reeves
Monster Mash-Upnew
AAAAAGGHH! A monster! Quick! YouTube it!
The Portland Mercury |
Erik Henriksen |
01-17-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Cloverfield, Matt Reeves
Monster Movie Magicnew
Investigating the J.J. Abrams ploy behind Cloverfield.
New York Press |
Eric Kohn |
01-17-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Cloverfield, Matt Reeves
