"That monster will never forgive us."
Not-so-quietly one of the best films of 2023, and likely among the greatest kaiju features ever. A towering experience of raw emotional magnitude and harrowing spectacle that reckons with the last eight decades of Japan’s interminable trauma through a sweeping post-war humanist saga in which the shadow of nuclear horror continues to breed unspeakable devastation in the wake of callous national leadership, leaving mournful citizens to rise from the ashes themselves when statesmen fail.…