Ranking March 2016's Movies - From Worst To Best

3. 10 Cloverfield Lane

RottenTomatoes Score: 90% (7.4/10)

Box Office: The $15 million thriller has made around $70 million to date, which while far off the original Cloverfield's $170.8 million, is understandable given the movie's claustrophobic premise as opposed to the wild monster shenanigans of the 2008 film.

Verdict: It's hard to say much about this movie without giving away its third-act surprises, but know that John Goodman gives one of his best performances here as an eccentric survivalist hell-bent on keeping Mary Elizabeth Winstead from leaving his fallout shelter and seeing what's left above the surface.

10 Cloverfield Lane is a near-masterclass in sustained tension, an extremely economic chamber piece which boasts superb performances, surprisingly sharp direction from first-timer Dan Trachtenberg, and a killer score by way of Bear McCreary. If you go in expecting a full-on sequel to Cloverfield, you might feel let down, but the fact that the advertising played totally fair about this would make you a fool for thinking that.

Above all else, it leaves us intrigued to see what else could come from this universe of stories.

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