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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 91
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    Godzilla is still the most awesome of tacky movie monsters. Read full review

  • 90
    L.A. Weekly |

    Can now be appreciated not just as a minor classic of tragic destruction, but also as a somber exploration of conflicted postwar emotions. Read full review

  • 88
    Boston Globe | Janice Page

    A definitive, low-tech stomping of every sci-fi clone that has sprung up in the original's wake. Read full review

  • 80
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

    The images are crisp. The story is restored. And there's no sign of Raymond Burr. Read full review

  • 80
    Washington Post | Stephen Hunter

    Its images of the destruction of the cities is far more powerful than in American films, where the cities are trashed for the pure pleasure of destruction, without any real sense of human loss. Read full review

  • 78
    Austin Chronicle | Marc Savlov

    Is it classic cinema? Perhaps not, but then again, American shores and citizens have never been lacerated by atomic weapons. What do we know? Read full review

  • 75
    New York Daily News | Jack Mathews

    The monster's mashing of Tokyo looks as Ed Wood-like as ever, but the film's humanity gives it depth. Read full review

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    A new restoration takes a flawed bit of monster camp and turns it back into a strong, serious-minded and occasionally moving science-fiction film. Read full review

  • 75
    Philadelphia Inquirer | Carrie Rickey

    Half a century after its release, Godzilla couldn't be more current. Read full review

  • 38
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    Regaled for 50 years by the stupendous idiocy of the American version of Godzilla, audiences can now see the original Japanese version, which is equally idiotic. Read full review

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