Godzilla vs. Kong
Adam Wingard (You’re Next) has made the best American Godzilla film. Godzilla vs. Kong is one of those films that gets better and better as it goes along. A little slow in the beginning. But when it really gets started it puts cool on top of cool. There is one character that was meant as comic relief, but he’s mostly annoying. However, he goes from being a relatively big quibble to a much smaller one as the great stuff increases, dwarfing him into nothing. And the great stuff isn’t just the fights and other action set-pieces; there’s some delightful surprises they served up for us all.–Charles T. Cochran
Rating: 4 and a half stars out of 5
Raya and the Last Dragon
I knew nothing about this film before sitting down in my local IMAX theater. I’ve been enjoying movies with Awkwafina recently and I was happy to see that she plays the dragon in this. This is a light breezy adventure story with a lot of heart. It also has an infant street gang leader of three primate things who provide much of the humor. Great character design and rendering; fight scenes are some of the best I’ve seen in a movie in a long time–bloodless, of course. I had far too much fun with this one.–Charles T. Cochran
Rating: 4 and a half stars out of 5
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