Godzilla Minus One is a brilliant reckoning for the king of monster allegories

Movie ReviewToho’s latest Godzilla film from writer / director Takashi Yamazaki takes the kaiju king back to its roots to tell a sobering story about reckoning with the present.

By Charles Pulliam-Moore, a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years.

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Even as Godzilla, the kaiju, has been reimagined as a baby, a Westernized egg-laying creature more akin to a dinosaur, and a metamorphosing terror from the sea, Godzilla as a concept has never really lost its connection to its original allegorical self. By fully embracing Godzilla’s ability

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