10 Cloverfield Lane, The Witch, And The Problem With Showing The Monster

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Much ado has been made about J.J. Abrams’s mystery box. (Too much, if you ask Abrams himself. And if you ask me. But here I am, writing about it anyway!) But that’s because the concept — the idea that a box, when unopened, “represents infinite possibility, hope, and potential” — is particularly salient when used to explain the singular flaw in nearly all of Abrams’s projects.