Monster movies never go out of style, but keeping them interesting is the challenge. Two new creature features, “The Void” and “Colossal,” try to inject new blood into the familiar genre.

Richard Brody on “Colossal,” the monster movie directed by Nacho Vigalondo and starring Anne Hathaway and Jason Sudeikis.

Not your most typical monster movie. But even when Colossal trips over its aspirations, what holds the film together is the director's enthusiastic certainty that he knows what he's doing.