10 Cloverfield Lane

C’mon, everybody, sing along, you know the words: “pretty good up until the final fifteen minutes!” I don’t want to make “Lane” out to be some ruined masterpiece (this would only have one extra point if it immediately cut to credits at around the eighty-eight minute mark), but the solid pacing, occasional great direction, and strong performances all around aren’t what defines the conversation around this film. That’s fair, if I’m being honest; it’s a baffling and obviously terrible ending, the kind of tonally disparate twist devoid of logic you’d sooner find in fan fiction than work made by professionals.

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