A movie that takes its characters and their trauma seriously, ensuring that their moments of triumph do feel truly earned... It feels a bit strange to watch a Godzilla movie and call it beautiful at the end. But that doesn’t make it any less true. (more)

“Godzilla Minus Zero” serves as a straightforward continuation of Takashi Yamazaki’s classical histrionics. This branch of the Zillaverse is far from deconstructionist: It’s straight-down-the-middle, no-nonsense monster/war movies that use the postwar Japanese period to play on traditional war-movie tropes under the auspices of its apocalyptic monster battles. “Minus Zero” doesn’t quite reach the miraculous highs of its predecessor, but the old boy still has plenty of bite. (more)