What Shin Godzilla does offer is one major counter: Godzilla's real home is Japan, and anything else feels like a glitzy vacation.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 16, 2017

Thirty-one films and 63 years later, the monster has seldom looked better. The final shot will haunt your dreams.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 15, 2017

Coming off like a peculiar mash-up of The Host and Dr Strangelove, Shin Godzilla is weirdly paced but does add a new twist to the old formula.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 13, 2017

This enjoyable but dialogue-heavy addition to the Godzilla family takes aim at the inert, top-heavy bureaucracy of Japanese government.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 13, 2017

There are lots of very shrewd and amusing scenes showing Japan's bickering and sclerotic bureaucracy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 11, 2017

Bonkers in all the wrong ways.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 10, 2017

Godzilla's strange and ever-changing nature goes some way to compensate for effects that are at times decidedly ropey, much as the relentless pace of the action and editing makes up for some very flat characterisation.

| Feb 26, 2017

As far as Godzilla movies go, this one is-just as Toho promised-a smashing return to form.

| Original Score: B | Oct 13, 2016

The King Of The Monsters roars back to life in his weirdest movie to date.

| Original Score: B- | Oct 12, 2016

Takes a more realistic, nuts-and-bolts approach to the eternal question: How do you solve a problem like Godzilla?

| Oct 11, 2016

Anno & Higuchi's vision of the character is thoughtful and clever without straying too far from the Godzilla formula established in films like the original 1954 Gojira.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 11, 2016

Godzilla ... lumbers through Tokyo in a far less natural way than the days when an actor in a rubber suit stomped on models.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 11, 2016

The film is at its best when it's in parody mode, though it keeps that card too close to the vest for much of its two-hour length.

| Oct 10, 2016

The Original Gangsta Lizard gets a largely satisfying reboot in "Shin Godzilla," a surprisingly clever monster mash best described as the "Batman Begins" of Zilla Thrillers.

| Sep 29, 2016

The mother of all allegorical monsters takes on new meaning in a talky, vaguely nationalistic reboot that slips on like a comfortable sweater, even if it's a sweater with some holes in it.

| Sep 26, 2016