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 Full Review »
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The New York Times: A.O. Scott
A swift and accessible entertainment, blunt in its power and exquisite in its effects.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Carrie Rickey
This is the breakthrough work of one of world cinema's most visionary artists.Read 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 Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
Del Toro never coddles the audience. He means us to leave Pan's Labyrinth shaken to our souls. He succeeds.Read Full Review »
Literally and figuratively marvelous, a rich, daring mix of fantasy and politics.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
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 Full Review »
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Salon.com: Stephanie Zacharek
This is a true fairy tale, and one of the finest fantasy pictures ever made, but please do not take your young children to see it unless you want them to be scarred for life.Read Full Review »
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