Godzilla Minus One Review Roundup

Godzilla Minus One hits theaters tomorrow after storming the Japanese box office in November, and critics have nothing but kind words for Takashi Yamazaki's latest film.

The film stars Minami Hamabe, Sakura Ando, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Yuki Yamada, Munetaka Aoki and Kuranosuke Sasaki and takes place in a post-war Japan. At the country's lowest point, a new crisis emerges in the form of a giant monster, baptized in the horrific power of the atomic bomb.

It currently sits at a 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes from a total of 34 reviews.

Here's what critics had to say about Godzilla Minus One

Review roundup

• New York Times: The writer-director, Takashi Yamazaki, integrates crowds and effects with a sure hand, and endows the violence with a dour air.

• San Francisco Chronicle: It's only taken 69 years, but there’s finally a Godzilla movie with compelling human interest.

• Den of Geek: Godzilla of Minus One once again represents the uncontrollable destruction of atomic weapons. But Yamazaki broadens the movie's metaphorical view to link Godzilla to war in general, a seemingly unstoppable death dealer with no understandable motivation.

• Slant Magazine: For all the unbridled destruction, Godzilla Minus One remains perversely light and fun, a Roland Emmerich-like disaster flick helmed by an actual talent.

• Collider: Whether you want to read it as a metaphor for immense loss or just get swept up in its thrills as a solid monster movie, Godzilla Minus One hardly ever makes a wrong step, even as these are mighty big feet it is working with. The King has truly returned.