Nearly 70 years after the original Godzilla movie was released in Japan, Japanese filmmaker Takashi Yamazaki has reimagined Godzilla's introduction with the new movie Godzilla Minus One. There have been countless Godzilla movies over the years, from both Japan and the US, but Godzilla Minus One is stomping its way to the front as one of the best-reviewed movies ever featuring the iconic monster, and better than recent major US movies like Napoleon and Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.
Godzilla Minus One was released in Japan on November 3, but as of December 1, is also playing in US movie theaters (it arrives December 15 for UK movie fans). And with that US release comes reviews, which are almost unanimously glowing. The movie has a 97% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes as of December 1, with Lucas Trevor of The Washington Post calling the movie "nothing short of magical," and Rolling Stone's Christopher Cruz describing it as an "artfully made throwback to kaiju classics" that demands to be seen on the big screen. Audiences tend to agree, as they give the movie a 98% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
