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After a car accident, a young woman (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) finds herself prisoner in an underground survivalist bunker where a creepy John Goodman convinces her that the world has been invaded by either Soviets or aliens, and that if they open the bunker door, they’ll soon be dead from toxins in the air. The script does a more convincing job than me in making you believe this could possibly be true. And the real terror, of course, comes not from what’s above ground, but from within the sanctuary itself. Goodman does a tremendous job playing scary without removing all shreds of doubt that he might actually be right about all the conspiracy nonsense he rambles on about. 10 Cloverfield Lane builds nicely as a claustrophobic thriller, so much so that I wish it had remained one to the end. Instead, there’s essentially a fourth act tacked onto the end of the film that is so over-produced and commercially pandering, that it kinda stains the good work that precedes it. With John Gallagher Jr.