Godzilla Minus One (2023)

Kamikaze pilot Shikishima chickens out on his mission at the end of WWII and lands on an island filled with Japanese army mechanics. When Godzilla shows up, Shikishima again succumbs to cowardice rather than shooting the monster from his plane as directed and winds up being one of only two survivors. Things don't get much better when he gets back to his hometown to find it devastated and his parents killed. He lives with the guilt, which prevents him from opening himself up to the little family that fate hands him. Can yet another threat from Godzilla offer him redemption? 

The effects work quite well despite their obvious humble roots. The movie only really stumbles in its writing of our "hero" Shikishima, who came off as a woe-is-me child intent on cultivating misery.

C+