Godzilla Minus One
The perfect mix of classic <PERSON> (not that I'm an aficionado) and modern blockbuster. Taking the best of both and mashing it up into a post-war Japan - fight to live rather than die for honor.
Not sure if this was the intent, but I loved that instead of trying to look as real as possible, the CGI was attempting to replicate practical effects. The action was both visually fun but also exciting, paced perfectly and had emotional weight strong enough to make me care but not going totally overboard with the sentimentality (although it veers dangerously close a couple of times).
Furthermore, for all the people out there saying "there isn't much <PERSON> in here"... 995
I don't know what y'all are talking about. He's in it a lot more than I was expecting. And each time it was under a little different circumstances.
Yeah there is all sorts of stuff to unpack in here even though at the end of the day it's a better than <PERSON>, <PERSON> movie. 549