Exactly the blunt, escapist dazzle you need in the middle of a pandemic.

| May 8, 2021

It's exactly what you think it is, no more no less. It's a shame because there are elements of a more interesting movie here...

| Apr 6, 2021

The film looked terrific. There is some imagery here that honestly took my breath away.

| Apr 6, 2021

A distracting jumble that reduces the stakes of the movie's mighty showdown nearly to a vanishing point, and turns the title titans and their other colossal cohorts into the incredible shrinking monsters.

| Apr 5, 2021

Vastly superior to 2019's muddy Godzilla: King of the Monsters...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 4, 2021

It's just tricky to try to make something look convincingly state-of-the-art and gloriously cheesy at the same time... What's missing is the fleeting but genuine awe that Gareth Edwards conjured up in Godzilla...

| Apr 3, 2021

Big, dumb, city-destroying fun...

| Apr 3, 2021

At home with its own sense of fun and precise in the organisation of its cacophonous digital action.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 2, 2021

It's hard to believe that human minds conceived the story line of Godzilla vs. Kong -- not because it's so intricate, elegant or spiritually elevated, but because it's so incoherent and idiotic.

| Apr 2, 2021

Forgive the exposition dump in the convoluted plot and go for a clash of the titans that is spectacular in every sense of the word.

| Apr 2, 2021

It's big, dumb fun that should be seen on the biggest screen you feel comfortable with.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 2, 2021

[I]n fact the new film, directed by Adam Wingard and written by a small committee, has an amusingly high order of scientific monster-movie mumbo-jumbo, delivered with serious intonations by well-respected actors as they stare in awe at a green screen.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 2, 2021

Wingard regularly opts for visual flourishes, imaginative diversions (a lovely second-act sequence takes place at the Earth's core) and the kind of mammoth energising punch-ups that suggest there's life yet to be harnessed from this age-old monster mash.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 2, 2021

Consider this one a draw.

| Original Score: C | Apr 2, 2021

This isn't the best big bruiser extravaganza ever made, but your eyes will stay glued to the screen, your eardrums will pound and heartrate will increase.

| Apr 1, 2021

As the climax of a bitty and uneven franchise, Godzilla vs Kong is profoundly silly - and all the more enjoyable for it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 2021

The CGI-created creatures that now populate these movies will never have the pure, stop-motion soul of the miniatures used in earlier films; somehow, especially as filtered through memory, those figures seem more real than real.

| Apr 1, 2021

The final battle in a neon-saturated Hong Kong is a thing of absolute beauty.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 1, 2021

We want colourful carnage. We want mindless destruction. We want one giant thing hitting another giant thing, and maybe one of those things could also be holding a giant glowing radioactive axe, maybe? Sure! Give the people Godzilla vs. Kong.

| Mar 31, 2021

Children and inner children should make time in their schedule. Even without a crowd, the movie is a pleaser.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 31, 2021