Godzilla: King of the Monsters

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Directed by Michael Dougherty
Produced by Thomas Tull, Jon Jashni, Mary Parent, Brian Rogers, and Alex Garcia

Screenplay by Michael Dougherty and Zach Shields Story by Max Borenstein, Michael Dougherty, and Zach Shields

With: Kyle Chandler, Vera Farmiga, Millie Bobby Brown, Ken Watanabe, Ziyi Zhang, Bradley Whitford, Sally Hawkins, Charles Dance, Thomas Middleditch, Aisha Hinds, O'Shea Jackson Jr., David Strathairn, Anthony Ramos, Elizabeth Faith Ludlow, Jonathan Howard, CCH Pounder, Joe Morton, Seth Green, and Eli Roth

Cinematography: Lawrence Sher
Editing: Roger Barton, Richard Pearson, and Bob Ducsay
Music: Bear McCreary

Runtime: 132 min
Release Date: 31 May 2019
Aspect Ratio: 2.39 : 1
Color: Color

The CGI-monster-rama many have dreamed of, but not me. Watching computer-generated creatures fight each other is still, to me, the absolute lowest form of cinema, even when the final battle takes place in my home city.

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A very good film. Most films I see fall in the two- or three-star ranking. I give an extra half-star to three-star films that could end up on the list of the 5000 greatest.

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