Pan's Labyrinth Critic Reviews

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

One of the greatest of all fantasy films.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

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

The lack of family friendliness does not diminish what del Toro has achieved with this magical motion picture.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

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

The performers are all good with Baquero poised and beautiful as Ofelia and Verdu vital and spirited as the rebellious Mercedes. Lopez gives an extraordinary performance as the bestial captain, an irredeemable villain to rank with Ralph Fiennes' Nazi in "Schindler's List."Read the full review

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