# Godzilla Minus One (2023)

An amazing distillation and remix of the Godzilla formula that feels at once classic and modern, timeless and timely, luxe and low-budget. Perhaps it leans a bit too much on domestic drama in a slowish second act, but I can’t point to exactly what I’d cut.

It’s interesting to compare this to Top Gun: Maverick. Both are movies about wrestling with a country’s military history and identity, but they couldn’t be more dissimilar from there. Actions that are heroic in one movie are cowardly in the other, and vice-versa - neither hero’s story could even be told in the other format.