Cloverfield's gritty, in-your-face style is uncompromising. If you're looking for a nice, clean movie filmed with a steadycam, you'll have to look elsewhere.

James Berardinelli

ReelViews

Think Godzilla Unplugged -- with chillingly effective results.

Michael Rechtshaffen

The Hollywood Reporter

Cloverfield, a surreptitiously subversive, stylistically clever little gem of an entertainment disguised, under its deadpan-neutral title, as a dumb Gen-YouTube monster movie, makes the convincingly chilling argument that the world will end -- or, at least, Manhattan will crumble -- with a bang and a whimper.

Lisa Schwarzbaum

Entertainment Weekly