The thriller produced by J.J. Abrams is a more grown-up, nuanced answer to the 2008 creature feature “Cloverfield.”

While producer J.J. Abrams describes "10 Cloverfield Lane" as being very different but in "the same wheelhouse" as the 2008 film "Cloverfield," it

10 Cloverfield Lane review

A woman is trapped by anxiety and a madman in Dan Trachtenberg’s genre mash-up.

The film builds buzz with a thrilling score

Kernel Rating (out of 5):  MPAA Rating: PG-13         Length: 105 minutes Age Appropriate For: 13+. This film is set in the same universe as the 2008 sci-fi horror film “Cloverfield,” so there is a variety of violence, including a brutal car accident, various characters who die (one is contaminated by toxic air, […]

“10 Cloverfield Lane” is only nominally a sequel to “Cloverfield,” the scruffy li’l 2008 monster movie in which New York idiots ran around filming themselves while their city became the plaything of an intergalactic tourist. The new picture is that earlier film’s neighbor down the street. And the neighbor lives in an underground bunker, where […]

Mystery abounds when a woman finds herself trapped in a bunker.

This ‘Twilight Zone’-style thriller is a film of two distinct styles. First there’s minimalist claustrophobic drama, unspooling in an underground bunker populat

J.J. Abrams-produced '10 Cloverfield Lane' is a more traditional suspense thriller than found-footage 'Cloverfield,' and stars John Goodman and Mary Elizabeth Winstead.

Unlike the found-footage twist of the horror film it takes its name from, this clever thriller packs no tricks but tremendous tension into John Goodman’s survivalist bunker

Spiritual successor to Cloverfield shows producer J.J. Abrams’s brilliant and annoying flair for marketing

It might have the C-word in the title, J.J. Abrams producing and a monster in its midst, but this is not Cloverfield 2. Anyone expecting/desiring a sequel

This one-room, micro-budget thriller works well as a ‘parallel’ film to JJ Abrams’s Cloverfield - just try to ignore the monster-sizer spoiler in the title

Once more, dear friends, to “Cloverfield” we go. Another trip into monster-movie land. Another blast of J.J. Abrams hype. Another movie floated to us in an attempted sea of secrecy. Does it live up to the brand, the hype, the attempts at hiding what we cannot NOT know about what’s going on? Nope. “10 Cloverfield…

Dir: Dan Trachtenberg. US. 2016. 103mins

Unrelated Cloverfield follow-up is a dandy suspenser

Forget the Cloverfield connection. The actors who were in this film didn’t even know what the title was until moments before the first trailer dropped. Producer J.J. Abrams used that branding as part of the wrapping for its promotional mystery box, but the movie stands perfectly alone from 2008’s found-footage monster picture. Hell, 10 Cloverfield Lane perhaps

When J.J. Abrams released Cloverfield in 2008, it arrived cloaked in secrecy. Now, some eight years later, the film’s so-called “blood relative” (Abrams’ term, not mine), comes with a similar marketing strategy. Going-in, viewers are unlikely...

Even so, the movie does what it needs to do.

'10 Cloverfield Lane' Isn't Your Average Blockbuster Sequel (Review)

Early in Dan Trachtenberg’s 10 Cloverfield Lane, Michelle (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), a young woman on an impromptu road trip, stops to gas up at a roadside establishment called “Kelvin’s Quick Stop.” That must mean something, I decided, scribbling…

Producer J.J. Abrams' "secret" project '10 Cloverfield Lane' is one primo things-that-go-bump-in-the-night thriller — read Peter Travers' rave review.

The P.T. Barnum of blockbuster salesmanship, J.J. Abrams makes good movies and better ad campaigns; he doles out pre-release information in tantalizing droplets, getting moviegoers hooked on the mystery he cultivates. But does this strategy always benefit the films themselves? Conceived and shot in near-total secrecy,…

On the night of January 14th I was staying up a little later then I probably should have been, when I saw an alert come across my phone: Paramount had just uploaded a trailer for something called 1...

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