Review: “Shin Godzilla” is a new masterpiece of Japanese cinema
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Shin Godzilla is the absolute most thrilling film about bureaucracy ever made, and I mean that as the highest form of compliment.
There comes a point, early in the film, where one wonders if directors Hideaki Anno (famed creator of Neon Genesis Evangelion) and Shinji Higuchi (a daikaiju veteran and special effects expert who recently helmed the live-act…
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