Godzilla
Man is estranged by the appearance of monstrous creatures, but one of them may be the only one who can save humanity.
3 March 1959, Lansing, Michigan, USA
26 January 1949, San Francisco, California, USA
17 January 1947, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
31 July 1956, New York City, New York, USA
26 January 1967, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
29 April 1934, Chongjin, North Korea
13 October 1963, Sapporo, Japan
30 December 1972, Michigan, USA
July 14, 2016
Big lizard, big budget, big fun.
May 18, 2014
This is what you get, San Francisco, with all your douchey, flashy, dot-com money: You get stomped on by Godzilla.
May 16, 2014
The first truly joyous popcorn action movie of the season.
June 18, 2016
'Godzilla' doesn't feel cynical; there's a sense of joy to the picture, of honest-to-God fun, which separates it from many of its summer movie brethren.
April 01, 2017
... with a cast and crew as strong as this, Godzilla should have been more than a disposable Hollywood blockbuster.
September 22, 2016
Every time Edwards' Godzilla rears up, you stiffen with excitement. Every time he roars, Edwards wants you to feel it and wince.
May 16, 2014
Godzilla handles everything the military hurls at him: ships, guns, planes, rockets, even a squadron of HALO paratroopers. The only thing that can cut him down to size is being relegated to a supporting role in his very own movie.
February 28, 2017
This Godzilla manages to rise above its human flaws, and become the massive modern monster movie it needs to be.
June 06, 2016
In a studio system that so heavily relies on playing all their cards at once, Edwards' restraint is half the fun -- the other half being the fully-satisfying climax.
May 16, 2014
We're here to see the film's leading lizard, who is pretty gorgeously realized by an army of digitizers, even if he seems just a bit-player in his own movie for the first hour or so.
June 15, 2016
Olive Oyl once sang a love song about Bluto. The refrain was, 'He's... laaaarge.' And there you have Godzilla in a nutshell. He's large, and the movie's largely a crashing bore.
May 16, 2014
The beasts just want to have fun, but the gravest letdown in Edwards's film is that, most of the time, he fends off the chance to have fun himself.
