Pan's Labyrinth Critic Reviews
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A swift and accessible entertainment, blunt in its power and exquisite in its effects.Read the full review
One of the greatest of all fantasy films.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
The result of the intricate interplay is a fairy tale for adults that is violent, sometimes shocking, yet utterly engrossing. And eerily instructive; it deepens our emotional understanding of fascism, and of rigid ideology's dire consequences.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
