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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 28 May 2019

Connoisseurs will thrill to hints of composer Akira Ifukube’s original orchestra motifs or the passing mention of an “oxygen destroyer,”…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 28 May 2019

What little pleasures the movie offers are small and intermittent…

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By Katie Rife (451) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 28 May 2019

You can’t just have two hours of kaiju slapping each other around like a gargantuan WWE highlights reel…

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By Brian Lowry (913) for CNN (497) on 28 May 2019

The net effect is more numbing than stirring, with only a few monster-on-monster tussles that come close to being worth the price of admission…

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By Johnny Oleksinski (478) for New York Post (6,650) on 28 May 2019

The whole movie is indistinguishable rubble…

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By Kate Erbland (681) for IndieWire (3,631) on 28 May 2019

Godzilla’s interest in saving humanity never made much sense, but it’s this CGI creation with no dialogue that gives the film the continuity…

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By Chris Nashawaty (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 28 May 2019

Before anyone reading this starts complaining that I just don’t get what movies like Godzilla: King of the Monsters are all about, that I’m…

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By Benjamin Lee (469) for The Guardian (2,969) on 28 May 2019

It’s a film with too much yet somehow so very little…

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By Matt Singer (625) for ScreenCrush (954) on 28 May 2019

Godzilla: King of the Monsters is as narratively incomprehensible as it is visually, with an even-more-talented roster of overqualified actors…

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By Mike Ryan (265) for Uproxx (697) on 28 May 2019

It’s just filled with a lot of stupid characters who all do stupid things to the point that the “plot” is just some crazy afterthought…

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By Ben Travis (84) for Empire (3,446) on 28 May 2019

Globe-trotting but not adventurous, action-packed but not remotely exciting, utterly overstuffed and completely paper-thin. Nuke it from orbit…

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By Afonso A (208) on 14 May 2018

2/5. The miniatures and the Godzilla attacks are awesome, but most of this movie is really boring…

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Review of Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956)

By Ryan S (2,401) on 14 May 2018

2/5. The miniatures and the Godzilla attacks are awesome, but most of this movie is really boring…

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By Rick Moody (2) for The Guardian (2,969) on 14 Aug 2017

The Americans got hold of the much superior Japanese original, Godzilla, and edited into it 20 minutes-worth of Burr, with his vacant and oddly…

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Review of Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956)

By Alex I (362) on 19 May 2017

Stolen Stuff from the original is just not as good…

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Review of Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956)

By Josh M (1,729) on 19 May 2017

Stolen Stuff from the original is just not as good…

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By Donna F (1) on 12 Mar 2017

No where near as good as the original Gojira. I hated the dobbing in English too…

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Review of Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956)

By Jamison W (4) on 09 Jan 2017

It's sorta a sad day when Perry Mason is the worst part of your monster movie…

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By Corey S (464) on 29 Dec 2016

After all these years and all the CGI that has come out and this is still the best Godzilla movie ever made…

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Review of Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956)

By Matthew H (1,857) on 13 Aug 2016

A 400-ft tall fire-breathing lizard leaves Tokyo in a smouldering ruin, a beast theorized to be awakened by experimental H-Bomb testing…

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