Amazingly, “Godzilla,” while actually having a trainwreck in it (two in fact), is not a complete trainwreck itself.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 14, 2024

Godzilla isn’t a perfect film by any means, but it takes aspects of what we know about Godzilla and pieced it together in a way that felt real, intense and big.

| Original Score: A- | Aug 19, 2024

It’s a stunner in every sense of the word.

| Mar 28, 2024

Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla is a beast of a film, and while it does brush its thick tail close to greatness, it is not without its flaws.

| Oct 8, 2023

Godzilla focuses more on the human characters than on the monster fights, and despite the narrative balance needing some adjustments, it surprisingly works quite well. The suspenseful build-up works in favor of the climactic third act.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 24, 2023

Director Gareth Edwards constructs his film well which hearkens back to the fun sci-fi monster movies of the 1950s. He uses their formulas of build up, buildup, slight reveal, buildup, big finale. I loved that.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 21, 2022

... faithful to the classic Godzilla monster mashes of the sixties and seventies, when giant creatures would attack mankind and Godzilla would rise from the ocean to smite them.

| Aug 19, 2022

The last 30 minutes of Godzilla are so marvelously exciting that by this point, the dull humans, and the film's generally slow-build, are secondary to the pure blockbuster showmanship anyway.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 15, 2022

Godzilla may be the headliner, but this is the MUTO's story. Godzilla shows up when needed, and that's about it.

| Jan 22, 2022

Edwards and Borenstein structure Godzilla similar to early Steven Spielberg movies: open with a bang, hold back the monster until halfway through, and drive the story by using half-informed protagonists trying to solve the cover-up.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 3, 2021

What really separates Godzilla from other modern blockbusters is just how good it looks.

| Mar 30, 2021

At least it's superior to 1998's hopeless Godzilla vs. Ferris Bueller, with the oversized monster no match for Matthew Broderick's shtick.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 27, 2021

Godzilla plays like Jurassic Park times two, the thrills have been amped up but Edwards has managed to maintain the spirit of the original Godzilla movies while updating them for a new audience.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 1, 2021

Presents all the thrilling visuals of both a monster movie and a disaster flick.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 4, 2020

It's for the most part a visually appealing film that works on the level of being a good ole' popcorn flick.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 9, 2020

Flawed but good.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 16, 2020

For a movie titled "Godzilla," the King of the Monsters has woefully little screen time.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 8, 2020

[This] is a Godzilla movie the way you remember them: Scary and fun, with giant monsters fighting one another while trashing their surroundings.

| Jun 30, 2020

Fortunately, this new version is miles better than the last time a Hollywood director tried his hand at bringing the Japanese monster to life.

| Original Score: 3.2/5 | Nov 22, 2019

While it has its problems - the most severe of which is Aaron Taylor-Johnson's performance - you can forgive it because, well, it's Godzilla fighting another giant monster. What more can you ask for?

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Aug 7, 2019