'Godzilla Minus One' Is One of the Most Important Blockbusters in Years and Nobody Is Talking About It Enough

The kaiju genre has never really been about the monster. That’s the thing most Western attempts at Godzilla have fundamentally misread, loading the films with destruction tourism and treating the human characters as connective tissue between set-pieces rather than the actual point of the whole exercise. Takashi Yamazaki understood something that Roland Emmerich and even Gareth Edwards only partially grasped: Godzilla works when the monster means something, and Godzilla Minus One built its entire...