It propels the franchise to new heights and reaffirms Godzilla as the undisputed king of the monsters. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 16, 2024

Godzilla Minus One is worth watching. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 12, 2024

Perhaps Godzilla Minus One has too many melodramatic moments. But Godzilla emerges from the depths of the sea and creates wonderment. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 10, 2024

This love letter to ordinary Japanese citizens who pull together to get the country out of hard times succeeds in delivering genuine emotion along with monster action.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 6, 2024

Despite the film’s charming background and ostensible small size, Minus One is tapping into the same thrills of blockbuster filmmaking with the support of hard-earned pathos.

Full Review | Jun 6, 2024

This is a legitimately great adventure film — not just a great Godzilla film — with moments of overwhelming despair and joy...

Full Review | Original Score: A+ | Jun 6, 2024

The best Godzilla movie I've seen so far! Kudos to Yamazaki & team for crafting a compelling human story that elicits genuine empathy, while delivering a gargantuan Oscar-worthy spectacle.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 6, 2024

..far more involving and emotional than it might be expected to be. With striking special effects, a fearsome monster, much ingenuity and a strong political viewpoint, this really is quite a reboot, and certainly puts the goofy Hollywood version to shame…

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 4, 2024

It has the moments of destruction and violence that one should expect from such a film. But it also contains a story that says a lot about PTSD, the use of soldiers in war, the future we leave to the young, and the value of life. Full review in Spanish.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jun 4, 2024

Yamazaki’s screenplay has subtly framed Shikishima as a stand-in for the nation at large, sloughing off macho Imperial dogma from underneath a suffocating shroud of survivor’s guilt.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 3, 2024

Godzilla Minus One is an action movie, a postwar drama, a monster epic, a character study – and a likely classic.

Full Review | Jun 3, 2024

A classic melodrama that serves as context and substrate for what really matters and impacts... [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 3, 2024

The big guy dazzled in Godzilla Minus One by getting back to his roots — punishing mankind’s hubris with cleansing atomic fire.

Full Review | May 21, 2024

After the forgettable North American versions, it is refreshing to see Godzilla in his own culture and context, where his destructive path has raison d'etre. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | May 6, 2024

A thrilling mix of epic kaiju spectacle and heartfelt drama.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 2, 2024

Remarkable in how it preserves what has always been the sturdiest elements of the franchise. ... In doing so, it leans heavily on Steven Spielberg’s Jaws for inspiration, and a pivotal sequence riffs on Nolan’s Dunkirk without apology.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Apr 29, 2024

One year shy of its 70th anniversary, Godzilla makes a return to the big screen with a Tojo effort that makes the American renditions look like drive-in disasters in Godzilla Minus One.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 7, 2024

Yamazaki is using “Godzilla Minus One” to create an alternate history where the World War II Japanese veterans are not possible war criminals, but valiant defenders of people.

Full Review | Apr 1, 2024

Imagine asking not “how cool would it be if…” rather, “how can our monster test our fully-realized human characters, and “how can we use our monster as a tool of social commentary, a means to explore and critique aspects of the culture that created it?”

Full Review | Mar 29, 2024

"Godzilla's properly menacing, the emotional [moments] work, [and it makes you] excited to see what Toho has coming next."

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 21, 2024