Godzilla Minus One
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The performances of Ryunosuke Kamiki and Minami Hamabe garnered critical praise, with each winning a Blue Ribbon Award and being nominated for a Japan Academy Film Prize.
Gendai Business and Real Sound [ja] reported that Godzilla Minus One received mixed reviews in Japan, while Western sources indicated critical acclaim overseas. According to The Hollywood Reporter, American critics concertedly praised its tiny-budgeted visual effects, touching human drama, and the usage of the kaiju metaphor for social commentary, with many favoring it over recent Hollywood productions. CBR reported that the film is widely considered one of the best films of 2023 and the greatest Godzilla movie ever made. Di situs web agregator ulasan Rotten Tomatoes, 98% pada 171 ulasan para kritikus adalah positif, dengan nilai rata-rata 8.4/10. Konsensus situs web berbunyi: "With engaging human stories anchoring the action, Godzilla Minus One is one kaiju movie that remains truly compelling between the scenes of mass destruction." Di situs Metacritic, yang menggunakan sistem penilaian rata-rata tertimbang, film ini mendapatkan skor 81 dari 100, berdasarkan 35 kritikus, yang menunjukkan "pengakuan universal". American audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale, and polls by PostTrak gave it a 92% overall positive score, with 83% saying they would definitely recommend the film.
Screen International critic Tim Grierson felt "there's a reverence shown to Godzilla Minus One's gruesome colossus; audiences may cheer the havoc it wreaks, but Yamazaki understands Godzilla's sombre societal implications." Time Out's reviewer gave the film 4 out of 5 stars, calling it "heartfelt and often awe-inspiring" and Godzilla "one scary bastard". Katie Rife of IGN said the film is more "hopeful" than Shin Godzilla with "more swell, in the score and on the heart strings; less terror and more pride, even (or perhaps especially) while evoking a vulnerable period in Japan's history". The Austin Chronicle critic Richard Whittaker elucidated that the film's largely emotionally-driven storyline and monster action make it comparable to Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru (1952) and Ishirō Honda's Godzilla (1954) respectively. In The Washington Post's review, the film was compared to Top Gun: Maverick (2022), and reviewer Lucas Trevor cited both films as reminders of the prominence of movies that combine "concise and creative action with emotionally resonant characters", but concluded that Godzilla Minus One is "quite possibly the better movie of the two".
Variety's Richard Kuipers said the film's "emotionally engaging storyline" and "heat-ray-breathing action", makes it a "high point in the long-running series". Collider described it as a "solid monster movie that hardly ever makes a wrong step" due to its "balances sweeping spectacle and tense action with the more complicated themes of war and loss". James Berardinelli lauded the film's effects, spectacle, screenplay, set and sound design, cinematography, and character development; dubbing it "an excellent Godzilla movie – arguably among the best ever to grace the screen". Kevin Maher, reviewing the film for The Times, deemed that "the Japanese have effectively humiliated Hollywood by delivering the best mega-monster movie since Peter Jackson's King Kong in 2005" and noted how "the average Hollywood Godzilla movie costs almost US$200 million and looks worse than this". Andy Lea, writing for Daily Express, gave the film a full five stars rating. Lea, similarly to Maher, felt "this Japanese Godzilla tramples its American rivals into the dust" and expressed how the "action scenes are tense and thrillingly orchestrated and the characters refreshingly three-dimensional".
Dana Stevens esteemed that "Kamiki's anguished, vulnerable performance is one crucial part of what makes this protagonist so memorable". In addition, Stevens recognized that Yamazaki spent a long time writing the screenplay, which allowed him to "fret about things other than radioactive reptiles", such as "how to earn a living in a war-ravaged economy", or if Kamiki's character is "ready to accept the love that Noriko and their adopted daughter are so eager to give him". Meanwhile, Daisuke Satō from IGN Japan praised Kamiki's performance but believed that the other characters, especially Hamabe's Noriko, were overly stereotypical examples of Japanese people during the Shōwa era. He found the film's representation of the female characters controversial and felt uneasy about their acceptance by modern-day audiences. Matt Schley of The Japan Times also criticized the characters, calling them "less impressive" and "one-note" compared with the visuals, adding that: "Much of the script, like the rousing speech near the film's conclusion where a former navy commander urges his men to stand and fight, is eye-roll-inducing stuff." In his review for the South China Morning Post, James Marsh noted that while some criticism has been directed towards the film "pushing a pro-military agenda", the protagonists are "united in vehement criticism of their government, which pressured so many ordinary citizens into wasting their lives for a questionable cause". Marsh later ranked Godzilla Minus One as the best Asian film of 2023.
For IndieWire's annual critics poll, of which 158 critics worldwide voted in, Godzilla Minus One was placed No. 30. Many critics on RogerEbert.com, including Matt Zoller Seitz, listed it amongst their favorite films of the year and Leonard Maltin also recommended the film when writing about his favorite films of 2023. The Quad-City Times named it the "best thing anyone put on screen in 2023". Writers for Collider ranked it the year's best Japanese film, fourth best foreign language movie, second best science fiction film, and eleventh best film overall. In addition, Collider ranked it No. 22 on their "25 Best Movies of the 2020s So Far". Cinema Today [ja] called Godzilla Minus One "without a doubt the No. 1" film released in Japan during 2023 on their "Top 20 Movies" list; Deadline listed the film amongst their "Top International Films Of 2023" list; Digital Trends and MovieWeb ranked it the second best action film of that year, with the latter calling it "one of (if not the) greatest monster movies in decades"; Paste ranked the film the third best science fiction movie of the year; Time Out ranked it the fourteenth best film of 2023; and TheWrap included it on their list of "The 10 Best Action Movies of 2023". The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences included it on their "Best Picture Reminder List" for the 96th Academy Awards. Forbes also ranked it the greatest live-action Godzilla film of all time. On the contrary, the Japanese film magazine Film Art [ja] ranked it the third worst on their list of "The Ten Best and Ten Worst Japanese Films of 2023".