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"...A very stylish and sophisticated Mexican variation on some age-old themes....[Its] stately style elevates it from the ranks..." New York Times "...Pleasant and spooky....Luppi gives a poignant and amusing performance....Del Toro not only has fun mixing genres, he knows how to convey his enjoyment and make the result distinctly his own..." Los Angeles Times 4 stars out of 5 -- "It's shadowy and tender, but shot through with biting wit." Uncut "Guillermo del Toro struck a fresh slant on the vampire genre with this stately blend of magic realism, melodrama and Cronenbergian body horror." Sight and Sound68.63744

"...A very stylish and sophisticated Mexican variation on some age-old themes....[Its] stately style elevates it from the ranks..." New York Times "...Pleasant and spooky....Luppi gives a poignant and amusing performance....Del Toro not only has fun mixing genres, he knows how to convey his enjoyment and make the result distinctly his own..." Los Angeles Times 4 stars out of 5 -- "It's shadowy and tender, but shot through with biting wit." Uncut "Guillermo del Toro struck a fresh slant on the vampire genre with this stately blend of magic realism, melodrama and Cronenbergian body horror." Sight and Sound68.63744

"...Ominous....The bugs move with scary agility, and the sounds are highly evocative..." New York Times "...Del Toro is an expert at the ominous, using a striking visual sense to drench his films with an atmosphere suffocatingly thick with undefined menace..." Los Angeles Times "...Stylishly directed by Guillermo Del Toro, whose visual sense adds a certain texture that makes everything scarier and more effective..."Chicago Sun-Times68.31994

"...Del Toro is an expert at the ominous, using a striking visual sense to drench his films with an atmosphere suffocatingly thick with undefined menace..."Los Angeles Times "...Stylishly directed by Guillermo Del Toro, whose visual sense adds a certain texture that makes everything scarier and more effective..."Chicago Sun-Times "...Ominous....The bugs move with scary agility, and the sounds are highly evocative..."New York Times68.31994

"...Del Toro is an expert at the ominous, using a striking visual sense to drench his films with an atmosphere suffocatingly thick with undefined menace..."Los Angeles Times "...Stylishly directed by Guillermo Del Toro, whose visual sense adds a certain texture that makes everything scarier and more effective..."Chicago Sun-Times "...Ominous....The bugs move with scary agility, and the sounds are highly evocative..."New York Times68.31994

"HELLBOY is engaging." Entertainment Weekly "Mr. del Toro lets loose with an all-American, vaudevillian rambunctiousness that makes the movie daffy, loose and lovable."New York Times "There's no shortage of slick special effects and rampaging monsters here. Yet what catches the eye and captures the imagination is the lovingly hand-crafted feel of the design..."Los Angeles Times "Guillermo del Toro has crafted a fiery action picture destined to please comics fans..."USA Today "It's vibrating with energy, and you can sense the zeal and joy in its making."Chicago Sun-Times "[A]n engaging supernatural action film....It's easy to be captivated by del Toro's style and the film's overall panache." Box Office "The bad guys have great looks....HELLBOY succeeds because it brings the visuals from the page to life with a beating red heart." Sight and Sound "Perlman nails Hellboy's blue-collar ethos....[With] visual artistry and sly wit..." Premiere "Perlman is outstanding....Over-the-top fun..." Uncut68.2659

"....Dense on imagery, mood and plot. Happily, it exults in its lurid and gruesome absurdity....A 'B' picture in love with the zest of its comic-book origins, it embodies that medium's pulse-pounding spiritedness and silliness..." New York Times "...Snipes gives a looser, cooler performance this time around..." USA Today "...There are twists and turns aplenty, zippy one-liners and enough firepower to flatten a major metropolis. BLADE II trumps its predecessor..." Box Office "...BLADE II has superior production values and visual and special effects....Snipes again combines a formidable physical presence with a depth of feeling and capacity for reflection unusual for an incarnation of a comic book hero..." Los Angeles Times "...Technically impressive....BLADE II is infused with maximum energy by filmmaker Guillermo del Toro..."Hollywood Reporter "...Darker, faster....There are plenty of gruesome or startling moments..." Sight and Sound "...What style, what energy and what a bloody great sequel..." Total Film "...Snipes once again provides the proper amount of ultracool gravitas as he slices, dices, shoots and scores in the title role..." Variety "...A really rather brilliant vomitorium of viscera....The movie is an improvement on BLADE, which was pretty good..." Chicago Sun-Times68.2659

"...BLADE II has superior production values and visual and special effects....Snipes again combines a formidable physical presence with a depth of feeling and capacity for reflection unusual for an incarnation of a comic book hero..."Los Angeles Times "....Dense on imagery, mood and plot. Happily, it exults in its lurid and gruesome absurdity....A 'B' picture in love with the zest of its comic-book origins, it embodies that medium's pulse-pounding spiritedness and silliness..."New York Times "...Snipes gives a looser, cooler performance this time around..."USA Today "...There are twists and turns aplenty, zippy one-liners and enough firepower to flatten a major metropolis. BLADE II trumps its predecessor..."Box Office "...Technically impressive....BLADE II is infused with maximum energy by filmmaker Guillermo del Toro..."Hollywood Reporter "...Darker, faster....There are plenty of gruesome or startling moments..."Sight and Sound "...What style, what energy and what a bloody great sequel..."Total Film "...Snipes once again provides the proper amount of ultracool gravitas as he slices, dices, shoots and scores in the title role..."Variety "...A really rather brilliant vomitorium of viscera....The movie is an improvement on BLADE, which was pretty good..."Chicago Sun-Times68.2659

"....Dense on imagery, mood and plot. Happily, it exults in its lurid and gruesome absurdity....A 'B' picture in love with the zest of its comic-book origins, it embodies that medium's pulse-pounding spiritedness and silliness..." New York Times "...Snipes gives a looser, cooler performance this time around..." USA Today "...There are twists and turns aplenty, zippy one-liners and enough firepower to flatten a major metropolis. BLADE II trumps its predecessor..." Box Office "...BLADE II has superior production values and visual and special effects....Snipes again combines a formidable physical presence with a depth of feeling and capacity for reflection unusual for an incarnation of a comic book hero..." Los Angeles Times "...Technically impressive....BLADE II is infused with maximum energy by filmmaker Guillermo del Toro..."Hollywood Reporter "...Darker, faster....There are plenty of gruesome or startling moments..." Sight and Sound "...What style, what energy and what a bloody great sequel..." Total Film "...Snipes once again provides the proper amount of ultracool gravitas as he slices, dices, shoots and scores in the title role..." Variety "...A really rather brilliant vomitorium of viscera....The movie is an improvement on BLADE, which was pretty good..." Chicago Sun-Times68.26589

"....Dense on imagery, mood and plot. Happily, it exults in its lurid and gruesome absurdity....A 'B' picture in love with the zest of its comic-book origins, it embodies that medium's pulse-pounding spiritedness and silliness..." New York Times "...Snipes gives a looser, cooler performance this time around..." USA Today "...There are twists and turns aplenty, zippy one-liners and enough firepower to flatten a major metropolis. BLADE II trumps its predecessor..." Box Office "...BLADE II has superior production values and visual and special effects....Snipes again combines a formidable physical presence with a depth of feeling and capacity for reflection unusual for an incarnation of a comic book hero..." Los Angeles Times "...Technically impressive....BLADE II is infused with maximum energy by filmmaker Guillermo del Toro..."Hollywood Reporter "...Darker, faster....There are plenty of gruesome or startling moments..." Sight and Sound "...What style, what energy and what a bloody great sequel..." Total Film "...Snipes once again provides the proper amount of ultracool gravitas as he slices, dices, shoots and scores in the title role..." Variety "...A really rather brilliant vomitorium of viscera....The movie is an improvement on BLADE, which was pretty good..." Chicago Sun-Times68.26589

"HELLBOY is engaging." Entertainment Weekly "Mr. del Toro lets loose with an all-American, vaudevillian rambunctiousness that makes the movie daffy, loose and lovable."New York Times "There's no shortage of slick special effects and rampaging monsters here. Yet what catches the eye and captures the imagination is the lovingly hand-crafted feel of the design..."Los Angeles Times "Guillermo del Toro has crafted a fiery action picture destined to please comics fans..."USA Today "It's vibrating with energy, and you can sense the zeal and joy in its making."Chicago Sun-Times "[A]n engaging supernatural action film....It's easy to be captivated by del Toro's style and the film's overall panache." Box Office "The bad guys have great looks....HELLBOY succeeds because it brings the visuals from the page to life with a beating red heart." Sight and Sound "Perlman nails Hellboy's blue-collar ethos....[With] visual artistry and sly wit..." Premiere "Perlman is outstanding....Over-the-top fun..." Uncut68.21667

"HELLBOY is engaging." Entertainment Weekly "Mr. del Toro lets loose with an all-American, vaudevillian rambunctiousness that makes the movie daffy, loose and lovable."New York Times "There's no shortage of slick special effects and rampaging monsters here. Yet what catches the eye and captures the imagination is the lovingly hand-crafted feel of the design..."Los Angeles Times "Guillermo del Toro has crafted a fiery action picture destined to please comics fans..."USA Today "It's vibrating with energy, and you can sense the zeal and joy in its making."Chicago Sun-Times "[A]n engaging supernatural action film....It's easy to be captivated by del Toro's style and the film's overall panache." Box Office "The bad guys have great looks....HELLBOY succeeds because it brings the visuals from the page to life with a beating red heart." Sight and Sound "Perlman nails Hellboy's blue-collar ethos....[With] visual artistry and sly wit..." Premiere "Perlman is outstanding....Over-the-top fun..." Uncut68.21667

"HELLBOY is engaging." Entertainment Weekly "Mr. del Toro lets loose with an all-American, vaudevillian rambunctiousness that makes the movie daffy, loose and lovable."New York Times "There's no shortage of slick special effects and rampaging monsters here. Yet what catches the eye and captures the imagination is the lovingly hand-crafted feel of the design..."Los Angeles Times "Guillermo del Toro has crafted a fiery action picture destined to please comics fans..."USA Today "It's vibrating with energy, and you can sense the zeal and joy in its making."Chicago Sun-Times "[A]n engaging supernatural action film....It's easy to be captivated by del Toro's style and the film's overall panache." Box Office "The bad guys have great looks....HELLBOY succeeds because it brings the visuals from the page to life with a beating red heart." Sight and Sound "Perlman nails Hellboy's blue-collar ethos....[With] visual artistry and sly wit..." Premiere "Perlman is outstanding....Over-the-top fun..." Uncut68.21667

"HELLBOY is engaging." Entertainment Weekly "Mr. del Toro lets loose with an all-American, vaudevillian rambunctiousness that makes the movie daffy, loose and lovable."New York Times "There's no shortage of slick special effects and rampaging monsters here. Yet what catches the eye and captures the imagination is the lovingly hand-crafted feel of the design..."Los Angeles Times "Guillermo del Toro has crafted a fiery action picture destined to please comics fans..."USA Today "It's vibrating with energy, and you can sense the zeal and joy in its making."Chicago Sun-Times "[A]n engaging supernatural action film....It's easy to be captivated by del Toro's style and the film's overall panache." Box Office "The bad guys have great looks....HELLBOY succeeds because it brings the visuals from the page to life with a beating red heart." Sight and Sound "Perlman nails Hellboy's blue-collar ethos....[With] visual artistry and sly wit..." Premiere "Perlman is outstanding....Over-the-top fun..." Uncut68.21667

"For horror that fries your nerves and fires your imagination, Guillermo del Toro is the hellboy of choice."Rolling Stone 3 stars out of 5 -- "In his highly atmospheric film, Del Toro extracts some excellent performances, especially Lopez, who makes his character a monster with some human qualities..."Box Office 4 stars out of 5 -- "[A]n exquisite, dark carnival destined to unspool again and again through troubled brains on many a sleepless night."Total Film "[Del Toro] is not only a skilled director mining a rich vein in fantasy/horror; he is an artist full stop....Not only del Toro's best film, but also his most demanding and accomplished..."Sight and Sound 4 stars out of 4 -- "Del Toro handles this rich narrative in a way that goes far beyond mere deftness -- this is incredibly passionate filmmaking..."Premiere Included in Entertainment Weekly's "Top 10 Films Of The Year" -- "[A] supple mix of magical realism and surreal movie-technique magic."Entertainment Weekly "If this is magic realism, it is also the work of a real magician....[Del Toro is] a thoroughgoing cinephile, steeped in classical technique and film history."New York Times Ranked #15 in Film Comment's "20 Best Films Of 2006."Film Comment 4 stars out of 4 -- "Del Toro never coddles the audience. He means for us to leave PAN'S LABYRINTH shaken to our souls. He succeeds."Rolling Stone "[A] most original picture that is at once a political melodrama, a poignant family drama and a macabre fairy tale."Movieline's Hollywood Life 5 stars out of 5 -- "[B]oth a mystical fairy tale and a brutal commentary on the horrors of war....There's no disputing the sheer beauty of del Toro's masterpiece..."Ultimate DVD68.12934

"For horror that fries your nerves and fires your imagination, Guillermo del Toro is the hellboy of choice."Rolling Stone 3 stars out of 5 -- "In his highly atmospheric film, Del Toro extracts some excellent performances, especially Lopez, who makes his character a monster with some human qualities..."Box Office 4 stars out of 5 -- "[A]n exquisite, dark carnival destined to unspool again and again through troubled brains on many a sleepless night."Total Film "[Del Toro] is not only a skilled director mining a rich vein in fantasy/horror; he is an artist full stop....Not only del Toro's best film, but also his most demanding and accomplished..."Sight and Sound 4 stars out of 4 -- "Del Toro handles this rich narrative in a way that goes far beyond mere deftness -- this is incredibly passionate filmmaking..."Premiere Included in Entertainment Weekly's "Top 10 Films Of The Year" -- "[A] supple mix of magical realism and surreal movie-technique magic."Entertainment Weekly "If this is magic realism, it is also the work of a real magician....[Del Toro is] a thoroughgoing cinephile, steeped in classical technique and film history."New York Times Ranked #15 in Film Comment's "20 Best Films Of 2006."Film Comment 4 stars out of 4 -- "Del Toro never coddles the audience. He means for us to leave PAN'S LABYRINTH shaken to our souls. He succeeds."Rolling Stone "[A] most original picture that is at once a political melodrama, a poignant family drama and a macabre fairy tale."Movieline's Hollywood Life 5 stars out of 5 -- "[B]oth a mystical fairy tale and a brutal commentary on the horrors of war....There's no disputing the sheer beauty of del Toro's masterpiece..."Ultimate DVD68.12934

"For horror that fries your nerves and fires your imagination, Guillermo del Toro is the hellboy of choice."Rolling Stone 3 stars out of 5 -- "In his highly atmospheric film, Del Toro extracts some excellent performances, especially Lopez, who makes his character a monster with some human qualities..."Box Office 4 stars out of 5 -- "[A]n exquisite, dark carnival destined to unspool again and again through troubled brains on many a sleepless night."Total Film "[Del Toro] is not only a skilled director mining a rich vein in fantasy/horror; he is an artist full stop....Not only del Toro's best film, but also his most demanding and accomplished..."Sight and Sound 4 stars out of 4 -- "Del Toro handles this rich narrative in a way that goes far beyond mere deftness -- this is incredibly passionate filmmaking..."Premiere Included in Entertainment Weekly's "Top 10 Films Of The Year" -- "[A] supple mix of magical realism and surreal movie-technique magic."Entertainment Weekly "If this is magic realism, it is also the work of a real magician....[Del Toro is] a thoroughgoing cinephile, steeped in classical technique and film history."New York Times Ranked #15 in Film Comment's "20 Best Films Of 2006."Film Comment 4 stars out of 4 -- "Del Toro never coddles the audience. He means for us to leave PAN'S LABYRINTH shaken to our souls. He succeeds."Rolling Stone "[A] most original picture that is at once a political melodrama, a poignant family drama and a macabre fairy tale."Movieline's Hollywood Life 5 stars out of 5 -- "[B]oth a mystical fairy tale and a brutal commentary on the horrors of war....There's no disputing the sheer beauty of del Toro's masterpiece..."Ultimate DVD68.12934

"For horror that fries your nerves and fires your imagination, Guillermo del Toro is the hellboy of choice."Rolling Stone 3 stars out of 5 -- "In his highly atmospheric film, Del Toro extracts some excellent performances, especially Lopez, who makes his character a monster with some human qualities..."Box Office 4 stars out of 5 -- "[A]n exquisite, dark carnival destined to unspool again and again through troubled brains on many a sleepless night."Total Film "[Del Toro] is not only a skilled director mining a rich vein in fantasy/horror; he is an artist full stop....Not only del Toro's best film, but also his most demanding and accomplished..."Sight and Sound 4 stars out of 4 -- "Del Toro handles this rich narrative in a way that goes far beyond mere deftness -- this is incredibly passionate filmmaking..."Premiere Included in Entertainment Weekly's "Top 10 Films Of The Year" -- "[A] supple mix of magical realism and surreal movie-technique magic."Entertainment Weekly "If this is magic realism, it is also the work of a real magician....[Del Toro is] a thoroughgoing cinephile, steeped in classical technique and film history."New York Times Ranked #15 in Film Comment's "20 Best Films Of 2006."Film Comment 4 stars out of 4 -- "Del Toro never coddles the audience. He means for us to leave PAN'S LABYRINTH shaken to our souls. He succeeds."Rolling Stone "[A] most original picture that is at once a political melodrama, a poignant family drama and a macabre fairy tale."Movieline's Hollywood Life 5 stars out of 5 -- "[B]oth a mystical fairy tale and a brutal commentary on the horrors of war....There's no disputing the sheer beauty of del Toro's masterpiece..."Ultimate DVD68.12934

"For horror that fries your nerves and fires your imagination, Guillermo del Toro is the hellboy of choice."Rolling Stone 3 stars out of 5 -- "In his highly atmospheric film, Del Toro extracts some excellent performances, especially Lopez, who makes his character a monster with some human qualities..."Box Office 4 stars out of 5 -- "[A]n exquisite, dark carnival destined to unspool again and again through troubled brains on many a sleepless night."Total Film "[Del Toro] is not only a skilled director mining a rich vein in fantasy/horror; he is an artist full stop....Not only del Toro's best film, but also his most demanding and accomplished..."Sight and Sound 4 stars out of 4 -- "Del Toro handles this rich narrative in a way that goes far beyond mere deftness -- this is incredibly passionate filmmaking..."Premiere Included in Entertainment Weekly's "Top 10 Films Of The Year" -- "[A] supple mix of magical realism and surreal movie-technique magic."Entertainment Weekly "If this is magic realism, it is also the work of a real magician....[Del Toro is] a thoroughgoing cinephile, steeped in classical technique and film history."New York Times Ranked #15 in Film Comment's "20 Best Films Of 2006."Film Comment 4 stars out of 4 -- "Del Toro never coddles the audience. He means for us to leave PAN'S LABYRINTH shaken to our souls. He succeeds."Rolling Stone "[A] most original picture that is at once a political melodrama, a poignant family drama and a macabre fairy tale."Movieline's Hollywood Life 5 stars out of 5 -- "[B]oth a mystical fairy tale and a brutal commentary on the horrors of war....There's no disputing the sheer beauty of del Toro's masterpiece..."Ultimate DVD68.12934

4 stars out of 5 -- "Recalling the look and feel of Hammer Horror movies, this is good, creepy fun, bolstered by the excellent voice work of the original movie cast."Ultimate DVD67.93875

"[HELLBOY II] delivers plenty of inventive thrills....The action is well-paced, the production design striking and the creatures and special effects spectacular. Del Toro is an extraordinary visual stylist..."USA Today "[A]live with fantasy and invention. To see this film, beautifully shot by Guillermo Navarro, is to truly feel you've entered another world, filled with nightmarish things both unimaginable and indescribable."Los Angeles Times "The story of HELLBOY 2 is a happy hodgepodge of bantering humor and portentous metaphysics, packing a remarkable range of moods and genre elements into a fairly compact 110 minutes."New York Times "[A] hard-driving psychedelic action-movie fantasia....del Toro stages all of the action brilliantly....Dazzling..." -- Grade: B+Entertainment Weekly "[A] breeze to watch...constantly inventive in its monsters and always ironic..."Sight and Sound 4 stars out of 5 -- "There is plenty of action....Del Toro's fondness for the macabre, and for clockwork, colour this film in a way that's instantly recognisable."Empire "[The film] arrives with stunningly beautiful set pieces, alien creatures that would make George Lucas catch his breath, and a color palette so bright and wondrous as to take your breath away."Premiere 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]here's more poetry and subtext than is typical for a comic-book movie, with themes of fertility, maturity and mortality laced throughout the slam-bang action set-pieces."Total Film67.69266

"[HELLBOY II] delivers plenty of inventive thrills....The action is well-paced, the production design striking and the creatures and special effects spectacular. Del Toro is an extraordinary visual stylist..."USA Today "[A]live with fantasy and invention. To see this film, beautifully shot by Guillermo Navarro, is to truly feel you've entered another world, filled with nightmarish things both unimaginable and indescribable."Los Angeles Times "The story of HELLBOY 2 is a happy hodgepodge of bantering humor and portentous metaphysics, packing a remarkable range of moods and genre elements into a fairly compact 110 minutes."New York Times "[A] hard-driving psychedelic action-movie fantasia....del Toro stages all of the action brilliantly....Dazzling..." -- Grade: B+Entertainment Weekly "[A] breeze to watch...constantly inventive in its monsters and always ironic..."Sight and Sound 4 stars out of 5 -- "There is plenty of action....Del Toro's fondness for the macabre, and for clockwork, colour this film in a way that's instantly recognisable."Empire "[The film] arrives with stunningly beautiful set pieces, alien creatures that would make George Lucas catch his breath, and a color palette so bright and wondrous as to take your breath away."Premiere 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]here's more poetry and subtext than is typical for a comic-book movie, with themes of fertility, maturity and mortality laced throughout the slam-bang action set-pieces."Total Film67.69266

"[HELLBOY II] delivers plenty of inventive thrills....The action is well-paced, the production design striking and the creatures and special effects spectacular. Del Toro is an extraordinary visual stylist..."USA Today "[A]live with fantasy and invention. To see this film, beautifully shot by Guillermo Navarro, is to truly feel you've entered another world, filled with nightmarish things both unimaginable and indescribable."Los Angeles Times "The story of HELLBOY 2 is a happy hodgepodge of bantering humor and portentous metaphysics, packing a remarkable range of moods and genre elements into a fairly compact 110 minutes."New York Times "[A] hard-driving psychedelic action-movie fantasia....del Toro stages all of the action brilliantly....Dazzling..." -- Grade: B+Entertainment Weekly "[A] breeze to watch...constantly inventive in its monsters and always ironic..."Sight and Sound 4 stars out of 5 -- "There is plenty of action....Del Toro's fondness for the macabre, and for clockwork, colour this film in a way that's instantly recognisable."Empire "[The film] arrives with stunningly beautiful set pieces, alien creatures that would make George Lucas catch his breath, and a color palette so bright and wondrous as to take your breath away."Premiere 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]here's more poetry and subtext than is typical for a comic-book movie, with themes of fertility, maturity and mortality laced throughout the slam-bang action set-pieces."Total Film67.64344

"[HELLBOY II] delivers plenty of inventive thrills....The action is well-paced, the production design striking and the creatures and special effects spectacular. Del Toro is an extraordinary visual stylist..."USA Today "[A]live with fantasy and invention. To see this film, beautifully shot by Guillermo Navarro, is to truly feel you've entered another world, filled with nightmarish things both unimaginable and indescribable."Los Angeles Times "The story of HELLBOY 2 is a happy hodgepodge of bantering humor and portentous metaphysics, packing a remarkable range of moods and genre elements into a fairly compact 110 minutes."New York Times "[A] hard-driving psychedelic action-movie fantasia....del Toro stages all of the action brilliantly....Dazzling..." -- Grade: B+Entertainment Weekly "[A] breeze to watch...constantly inventive in its monsters and always ironic..."Sight and Sound 4 stars out of 5 -- "There is plenty of action....Del Toro's fondness for the macabre, and for clockwork, colour this film in a way that's instantly recognisable."Empire "[The film] arrives with stunningly beautiful set pieces, alien creatures that would make George Lucas catch his breath, and a color palette so bright and wondrous as to take your breath away."Premiere 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]here's more poetry and subtext than is typical for a comic-book movie, with themes of fertility, maturity and mortality laced throughout the slam-bang action set-pieces."Total Film67.64344

3 stars out of 5 -- "The eye-pleasing layout feels cinematic, the action and camera moves are fluid...and there's a full score."Ultimate DVD67.44657

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"[R]eally, truly, very scary....The start is properly terrifying due to Nixey's excellent sense of pacing."Los Angeles Times "This is only the second film by the director, Troy Nixey, but he shows a firm hold on atmosphere."Chicago Sun-Times 3 stars out of 5 -- "[With] some tense set-pieces and expert, swooping camerawork....The CGI creatures are brilliantly realised..."Total Film "The beasties in DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK have the horror-comic malleability of the creatures in GREMLINS: Adorable and funny on one beat, nasty the next."A.V. Club "[A]n old-fashioned spooker....[With] richly detailed visuals..."New York Times 3 stars out of 4 -- "DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK feels retro in all the right ways..."Washington Post 3 stars out of 5 -- "DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK continues Guillermo Del Toro's obsession with revisiting childhood fears."Uncut0.9177612

"[R]eally, truly, very scary....The start is properly terrifying due to Nixey's excellent sense of pacing."Los Angeles Times "This is only the second film by the director, Troy Nixey, but he shows a firm hold on atmosphere."Chicago Sun-Times 3 stars out of 5 -- "[With] some tense set-pieces and expert, swooping camerawork....The CGI creatures are brilliantly realised..."Total Film "The beasties in DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK have the horror-comic malleability of the creatures in GREMLINS: Adorable and funny on one beat, nasty the next."A.V. Club "[A]n old-fashioned spooker....[With] richly detailed visuals..."New York Times 3 stars out of 4 -- "DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK feels retro in all the right ways..."Washington Post 3 stars out of 5 -- "DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK continues Guillermo Del Toro's obsession with revisiting childhood fears."Uncut0.9177612

"This is only the second film by the director, Troy Nixey, but he shows a firm hold on atmosphere."Chicago Sun-Times "The beasties in DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK have the horror-comic malleability of the creatures in GREMLINS: Adorable and funny on one beat, nasty the next."A.V. Club "[A]n old-fashioned spooker....[With] richly detailed visuals..."New York Times 3 stars out of 4 -- "DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK feels retro in all the right ways..."Washington Post 3 stars out of 5 -- "[With] some tense set-pieces and expert, swooping camerawork....The CGI creatures are brilliantly realised..."Total Film 3 stars out of 5 -- "DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK continues Guillermo Del Toro's obsession with revisiting childhood fears."Uncut "It's an enjoyably old-fashioned creepy-house monster picture..."Sight and Sound "[R]eally, truly, very scary....The start is properly terrifying due to Nixey's excellent sense of pacing."Los Angeles Times0.8685434

"As a movie's titillating trailer unspools, these talking heads share cheeky backstories, clever criticism, and their own personal memories of the first time they saw a flick like 1956's FIRE MAIDENS OF OUTER SPACE." -- Grade: B+Entertainment Weekly0.7874849

"RUDO Y CURSI scores from every angle -- comic, personal and cross-cultural....Cuaron's rich narrative courses through an array of personal obstacles, all of them universal and readily identifiable."Hollywood Reporter 3 stars out of 4 -- "It's a pleasure to watch the chemistry and engaging humor between actors who clearly enjoy each other's company....Such is the case with the Mexican stars of RUDO Y CURSI..."USA Today "[T]he arrival of the puckishly entertaining, fleet-of-foot drama-comedy RUDO Y CURSI deserves a hearty welcome....RUDO Y CURSI pulses with life..."Los Angeles Times "RUDO Y CURSI is a sly miniaturist pleasure on its own terms, a piquant fable about the bouncing ups and downs of success, failure, competition, and comradeship." -- Grade: B+Entertainment Weekly "RUDO Y CURSI lives up to its name, as do its sweet and scrappy heroes....With a winning measure of swagger and style."New York Times 3 stars out of 4 -- "This isn't a sports movie, but a human comedy, and depends on the effortless chemistry between Luna and Garcia Bernal, who evoke, like real brothers, the ability to love and hate each other and push all the right buttons."Chicago Sun-Times "RUDO Y CURSI begins as delightful satire of the tackiness and crass excess of the nouveau riche, blessed with the same loose, improvisational, French New Wave-inspired chemistry of Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN." -- Grade: BA.V. Club 3 stars out of 5 -- "Soccer provides the backdrop for this rowdy, ramshackle comedy....[G]ood-natured fun..."Rolling Stone 4 stars out of 5 -- "[A]n agreeably ramshackle football farce, directed by Cuaron's screenwriting partner and brother, that still says a surprising amount about the state of South America..."Uncut0.5906137

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"The effects work is quite strong -- no surprise for a fright-flick with Guillermo Del Toro as an exec producer -- as is the moody score."Hollywood Reporter "The outstanding creature effects by Howard Berger only get more astonishing as SPLICE splits into an eerie horror picture, then divides again into something out of ROSEMARY'S BABY."Entertainment Weekly 3 stars out of 5 -- "Brody and Polley perform way beyond the call of sci-fi duty, creating complex characters that draw us in."Rolling Stone "[D]istinctive....SPLICE was directed, deftly, by Vincenzo Natali from an extremely smart screenplay..."Wall Street Journal 3 stars out of 5 -- "SPLICE is a hybrid that works. It's a smart, slickly paced, well-acted science-fiction cautionary tale-horror movie-psychological drama."Los Angeles Times "With seamless special effects, director Vincenzo Natali creates a believable hybrid creature that alternately elicits fear, revulsion and sympathy."USA Today "[Natali] has achieved that rare, sought-after thing: a vision of an ethically compromised near-future just possible enough to engross both intellectually and emotionally and outrageous enough to engage suspension of disbelief."Movieline "[A] pleasurably shivery, sometimes delightfully icky horror movie about love and monsters in the age of genetic engineering..."New York Times "For all the gleaming technology and echoes of cloning, stem cell research, and other contemporary issues, the horror here stems from the couple's attempts to keep a fragile, newborn creature alive..." -- Grade: B+A.V. Club 3 stars out of 4 -- "The script blends human psychology with scientific speculation....Brody and Polley are smart actors..."Chicago Sun-Times 3 stars out of 4 -- "SPLICE is an old fashioned monster movie that owes it's obsession with writhing, slime-slicked flesh to director's like David Cronenberg, and dreamy romanticism to the movie's producer, Guillermo Del Toro..."Premiere0.4940496

"The effects work is quite strong -- no surprise for a fright-flick with Guillermo Del Toro as an exec producer -- as is the moody score."Hollywood Reporter "The outstanding creature effects by Howard Berger only get more astonishing as SPLICE splits into an eerie horror picture, then divides again into something out of ROSEMARY'S BABY."Entertainment Weekly 3 stars out of 5 -- "Brody and Polley perform way beyond the call of sci-fi duty, creating complex characters that draw us in."Rolling Stone "[D]istinctive....SPLICE was directed, deftly, by Vincenzo Natali from an extremely smart screenplay..."Wall Street Journal 3 stars out of 5 -- "SPLICE is a hybrid that works. It's a smart, slickly paced, well-acted science-fiction cautionary tale-horror movie-psychological drama."Los Angeles Times "With seamless special effects, director Vincenzo Natali creates a believable hybrid creature that alternately elicits fear, revulsion and sympathy."USA Today "[Natali] has achieved that rare, sought-after thing: a vision of an ethically compromised near-future just possible enough to engross both intellectually and emotionally and outrageous enough to engage suspension of disbelief."Movieline "[A] pleasurably shivery, sometimes delightfully icky horror movie about love and monsters in the age of genetic engineering..."New York Times "For all the gleaming technology and echoes of cloning, stem cell research, and other contemporary issues, the horror here stems from the couple's attempts to keep a fragile, newborn creature alive..." -- Grade: B+A.V. Club 3 stars out of 4 -- "The script blends human psychology with scientific speculation....Brody and Polley are smart actors..."Chicago Sun-Times 3 stars out of 4 -- "SPLICE is an old fashioned monster movie that owes it's obsession with writhing, slime-slicked flesh to director's like David Cronenberg, and dreamy romanticism to the movie's producer, Guillermo Del Toro..."Premiere0.4940496

"The effects work is quite strong -- no surprise for a fright-flick with Guillermo Del Toro as an exec producer -- as is the moody score."Hollywood Reporter "The outstanding creature effects by Howard Berger only get more astonishing as SPLICE splits into an eerie horror picture, then divides again into something out of ROSEMARY'S BABY."Entertainment Weekly 3 stars out of 5 -- "Brody and Polley perform way beyond the call of sci-fi duty, creating complex characters that draw us in."Rolling Stone "[D]istinctive....SPLICE was directed, deftly, by Vincenzo Natali from an extremely smart screenplay..."Wall Street Journal 3 stars out of 5 -- "SPLICE is a hybrid that works. It's a smart, slickly paced, well-acted science-fiction cautionary tale-horror movie-psychological drama."Los Angeles Times "With seamless special effects, director Vincenzo Natali creates a believable hybrid creature that alternately elicits fear, revulsion and sympathy."USA Today "[Natali] has achieved that rare, sought-after thing: a vision of an ethically compromised near-future just possible enough to engross both intellectually and emotionally and outrageous enough to engage suspension of disbelief."Movieline "[A] pleasurably shivery, sometimes delightfully icky horror movie about love and monsters in the age of genetic engineering..."New York Times "For all the gleaming technology and echoes of cloning, stem cell research, and other contemporary issues, the horror here stems from the couple's attempts to keep a fragile, newborn creature alive..." -- Grade: B+A.V. Club 3 stars out of 4 -- "The script blends human psychology with scientific speculation....Brody and Polley are smart actors..."Chicago Sun-Times 3 stars out of 4 -- "SPLICE is an old fashioned monster movie that owes it's obsession with writhing, slime-slicked flesh to director's like David Cronenberg, and dreamy romanticism to the movie's producer, Guillermo Del Toro..."Premiere0.4940496

"The effects work is quite strong -- no surprise for a fright-flick with Guillermo Del Toro as an exec producer -- as is the moody score."Hollywood Reporter "The outstanding creature effects by Howard Berger only get more astonishing as SPLICE splits into an eerie horror picture, then divides again into something out of ROSEMARY'S BABY."Entertainment Weekly 3 stars out of 5 -- "Brody and Polley perform way beyond the call of sci-fi duty, creating complex characters that draw us in."Rolling Stone "[D]istinctive....SPLICE was directed, deftly, by Vincenzo Natali from an extremely smart screenplay..."Wall Street Journal 3 stars out of 5 -- "SPLICE is a hybrid that works. It's a smart, slickly paced, well-acted science-fiction cautionary tale-horror movie-psychological drama."Los Angeles Times "With seamless special effects, director Vincenzo Natali creates a believable hybrid creature that alternately elicits fear, revulsion and sympathy."USA Today "[Natali] has achieved that rare, sought-after thing: a vision of an ethically compromised near-future just possible enough to engross both intellectually and emotionally and outrageous enough to engage suspension of disbelief."Movieline "[A] pleasurably shivery, sometimes delightfully icky horror movie about love and monsters in the age of genetic engineering..."New York Times "For all the gleaming technology and echoes of cloning, stem cell research, and other contemporary issues, the horror here stems from the couple's attempts to keep a fragile, newborn creature alive..." -- Grade: B+A.V. Club 3 stars out of 4 -- "The script blends human psychology with scientific speculation....Brody and Polley are smart actors..."Chicago Sun-Times 3 stars out of 4 -- "SPLICE is an old fashioned monster movie that owes it's obsession with writhing, slime-slicked flesh to director's like David Cronenberg, and dreamy romanticism to the movie's producer, Guillermo Del Toro..."Premiere0.4940496

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"RUDO Y CURSI scores from every angle -- comic, personal and cross-cultural....Cuaron's rich narrative courses through an array of personal obstacles, all of them universal and readily identifiable."Hollywood Reporter 3 stars out of 4 -- "It's a pleasure to watch the chemistry and engaging humor between actors who clearly enjoy each other's company....Such is the case with the Mexican stars of RUDO Y CURSI..."USA Today "[T]he arrival of the puckishly entertaining, fleet-of-foot drama-comedy RUDO Y CURSI deserves a hearty welcome....RUDO Y CURSI pulses with life..."Los Angeles Times "RUDO Y CURSI is a sly miniaturist pleasure on its own terms, a piquant fable about the bouncing ups and downs of success, failure, competition, and comradeship." -- Grade: B+Entertainment Weekly "RUDO Y CURSI lives up to its name, as do its sweet and scrappy heroes....With a winning measure of swagger and style."New York Times 3 stars out of 4 -- "This isn't a sports movie, but a human comedy, and depends on the effortless chemistry between Luna and Garcia Bernal, who evoke, like real brothers, the ability to love and hate each other and push all the right buttons."Chicago Sun-Times "RUDO Y CURSI begins as delightful satire of the tackiness and crass excess of the nouveau riche, blessed with the same loose, improvisational, French New Wave-inspired chemistry of Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN." -- Grade: BA.V. Club 3 stars out of 5 -- "Soccer provides the backdrop for this rowdy, ramshackle comedy....[G]ood-natured fun..."Rolling Stone 4 stars out of 5 -- "[A]n agreeably ramshackle football farce, directed by Cuaron's screenwriting partner and brother, that still says a surprising amount about the state of South America..."Uncut0.3937424

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3 stars out of 4 -- "[D]irector Peter Ramsey and his art team have created a crisp, colorful fantasy world, sharper-edged than many feature-length children's cartoons..."Chicago Sun-Times "The CG animation is painterly....There is a lot to savor in RISE OF THE GUARDIANS..."Los Angeles Times 4 stars out of 5 -- "RISE OF THE GUARDIANS is one of the best kid's films of the year, full of delight and action and charm and comedy."Box Office "RISE OF THE GUARDIANS boasts a great deal of visual energy and amounts to a lot of fun..."A.V. Club "The idea is an old one, yet RISE OF THE GUARDIANS takes it and makes it its own. Its a lovely and original tale."Washington Post "Visually, things are bright and crisp as Christmas morning."Total Film "[A] feast for the eyes....The critters are the best, especially Father Christmas's regiments of grumpy yetis and gibbering elves."Sight and Sound0.3937424