Pan's Labyrinth Critic Reviews

A swift and accessible entertainment, blunt in its power and exquisite in its effects.Read the full review

Visually stunning, it meshes haunting images with a complex multilevel story about the enchantment of youth.Read the full review

With this film, del Toro seems to have created his manifesto, a tour de force of cautionary zeal, humanism and magic. At this writing, Pan's Labyrinth is the best-reviewed film of 2006 listed on the movie review Web site Metacritic.com, and for a reason: It's just that great.Read the full review

Del Toro never coddles the audience. He means us to leave Pan's Labyrinth shaken to our souls. He succeeds.Read the full review

Pan's Labyrinth is a transcendent work of art.Read the full review

Like any great myth, Pan's Labyrinth encodes its messages through displays of magic. And like any good fairy tale, it is also embroidered with threads of death and loss.Read the full review

After two hours of dazzlingly fantastical images and stomach-turning gore, del Toro winds around, and finds his story's center.Read the full review

With Pan's Labyrinth, Del Toro has made his most accomplished film to date, a dark and disturbing fairy tale for adults that's been thought out to the nth degree and resonates with the irresistible inevitability of a timeless myth.Read the full review

Pan's Labyrinth artfully fuses a war film with a family melodrama and a fairy tale. The result is visually stunning and emotionally shattering.Read the full review