Japanese-produced Godzilla film is a confident crowd-pleaser which throttles recent Hollywood remakes

With an emotionally engaging storyline and plenty of action, the latest live-action Godzilla from Japan marks a high point in the long-running series.

At once frightening and desperately moving, the latest in the Japanese franchise is proving a roaring success despite its shoestring budget

"Godzilla Minus One" is an ambitious reset of the famed Japanese movie monster, a reboot of the franchise and the character introduced in the 1950s as an allegory of Japanese victimhood in in the nuclear age. Writer-director and effects supervisor Takashi Yamazaki ("The Fighter Pilot") gives us hints of the parable he'd like this new…

A grand, sweeping blockbuster, Godzilla Minus One is light on terror and heavy on spectacle

Japan's Toho Studios, originators of the original 'Godzilla,' produce a satisfying update, modernized by new FX technologies but set in the post-WWII period.

Director Takashi Yamazaki sets his destroyer of worlds against a postwar Japan still recovering from the effects of the A-bomb with the little people left to work out how to save themselves

Going back to basics, Takashi Yamazaki’s ‘Minus One’ is a lean Spielbergian period drama that brings the Toho titan back to its former glory.

★★★★★ Godzilla Minus One successfully blends horror-infused kaiju spectacle with an emotionally compelling storyline about grief, wartime trauma, and hope. The film's world-class visuals, engaging characters, and socially relevant themes differentiate it from other entries in the franchise. It is a superlative monster movie.

...evokes the sense of loss and mourning of the granddaddy of these pictures, 1954’s Gojira.

Harkening back to the original Godzilla, the latest massive monster movie has a heartrending human side. Our Godzilla Minus One review:

With Godzilla set to turn 70 next year, this film does justice to one of cinema history's great creatures

This great-looking kaiju movie is heartfelt and epic.

The legendary monster returns in the Japanese film 'Godzilla Minus One,' in which he rampages through Tokyo yet again.

This commentary on American imperialism, postwar malaise, survivor guilt and weaponised atomic power has historical depth and exciting set pieces

Godzilla takes down post-war Japan in this new big-screen epic. Read the Empire review now.

Godzilla is the draw, but equally at the wild and monstrous heart of this movie is a surprisingly optimistic exploration of PTSD, shame, survivor’s guilt, and how we are all more than the worst things we’ve ever done.

Godzilla Minus One is a masterpiece of both the macro and the micro.