Review of 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) by Cjm868 — 31 Mar 2016

What a fantastic movie! 10 Cloverfield Lane delivers, big time. It is one of the best thrillers to come out of Hollywood in awhile.

This movie along with Ex_Machina are leading the charge in the reemergence of the slow burn Hitchcockian thriller. It's great to see this kind of film to come back into the fore.

It gets very tense throughout the course of this movie. There is a brilliant scene at a dinner table where two characters laughing and joking around with one another ratchets up the tension instead of relieving you of it. How many movies can you say have done that?

All the performances are superb. There are lots and lots of closeups of a characters face and all of the actors (but mostly Mary Elizabeth Winstead), have to convey many thoughts and feelings to the audience with just their facial movements. The standout performance though is John Goodman's, he is a very nuanced character who's lumbering presence is felt even when he is not onscreen.

This is a top notch thriller, the kind I would like to see more of in the coming years.