It's well acted, nuanced, and surprisingly effective. A definite must-see thriller.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 21, 2017

It works best whenever Goodman swaggers into frame, a slack-jawed psycho with a cuddly side.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 28, 2016

10 Cloverfield Lane might not be a true sequel to Cloverfield, but that doesn't make it any less magnificent, watching it a spellbinding treat I simply did not want to see come to an end.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 15, 2016

Set in the same universe as the 2008 monster-focused blockbuster, 10 Cloverfield Lane focuses tightly on a trio of survivors, with solid fear and tension.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 2, 2016

Both Winstead and Gallagher Jr. are great as the young bomb shelter roomies, but it's Goodman's film. He's a Stephen King-style character -- affable and menacing, with both a cheery bonhomie and a hair-trigger temper.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 13, 2016

John Goodman brings his A-game to the part of the tightrope-walking Howard who is at times kind and gentle and at others unhinged and cuckoo. Mary Elizabeth Winstead matches him note for note.

| May 2, 2016

Until its final ten minutes, this is a dazzling, absorbing, sometimes unbearably tense thriller, an efficient and precise three-hander that rarely takes a false step.

| Apr 9, 2016

10 Cloverfield Lane alternates moods seamlessly, ratcheting tension to the breaking point and then deflating it with black humor.

| Mar 25, 2016

All three cast members play their roles to a tee, with Goodman walking a thin line between threat and pathos, while Winstead does a terrific job of leading the audience through the increasingly outlandish revelations of the plot.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 20, 2016

In an era of bloated blockbusters, 10 Cloverfield Lane is refreshingly pared down -- a chamber piece rather than an epic.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 18, 2016

A wildly entertaining genre mash-up.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 18, 2016

After a particularly dull Oscar season, this is a refreshing and extremely satisfying palette cleanser.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 17, 2016

Happily, 10 Cloverfield Lane proves a wildly effective white-knuckle affair, replete with twists, turns and terror.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 17, 2016

Don't give away the secret of this J.J. Abrams production, which begins as one sort of movie before turning into another sort of movie but manages to be continuously bad.

| Mar 17, 2016

By the end, 10 Cloverfield Lane feels like a marketing plan posing as a movie.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 17, 2016

The film stumbles a bit in the end, when the exact nature of the perils within and without are made clear, but up until that point, 10 Cloverfield Lane is scarily suspenseful stuff.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 17, 2016

A smart and tense chamber piece that builds suspense carefully.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 15, 2016

Trachtenberg ... smothers the action in showy camera work and an overly insistent music score. But, as the mystery unravels, he reveals flashes of a giddily hyperbolic pop imagination.

| Mar 14, 2016

Put this down, close this tab, go to your local multiplex and just buy a ticket. Even better if you haven't seen more than a teaser trailer. Do not pass go, do not collect $200, proceed directly to the theater.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 11, 2016

A bit formulaic, but oh so scary. Then there's John Goodman!

| Mar 11, 2016