Our Monsters, Ourselves: Shin Godzilla

Shin GodzillaDirected by Hideaki Anno and Shinji HiguchiNow in theaters
Capping a season of blockbuster releases that was somehow even more punishingly milquetoast and committee-branded than usual, Hideki Anno and Shinji Higuchi’s Shin Godzilla arrives as the for-adults disaster epic we knew, deep down, we wanted. In political terms, the filmmakers have delivered the most radical—which is to say, America-skeptic—entry in the giant reptile franchise since Ishiro Honda’s 1