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Friday, January 18, 2008 12:00 AM

"Cloverfield"

Do we really need the horror of 9/11 to be repackaged and presented to us as an amusement-park ride?
By Stephanie Zacharek

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  • Friday, January 18, 2008 01:03 PM

    Go see Gojira

    This isn't Godzilla cartoonishly chomping the heads off random citizens.

    Perhaps the reviewer is unfamiliar with the firebombings that Tokyo endured, and has never seen the original, Burr-less Gojira. I'm not saying that this movie is on such a scale, but there is some resonance there.

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