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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
One of the greatest of all fantasy films.
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Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
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.
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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.
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San Francisco Chronicle Ruthe Stein
Visually stunning, it meshes haunting images with a complex multilevel story about the enchantment of youth.
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Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
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.
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Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
This is the breakthrough work of one of world cinema's most visionary artists.
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New York Daily News Jack Mathews
A critic trots out the word "masterpiece" at his own peril, but there it is.
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Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
A brilliant work of the imagination capable of truly seizing and igniting our fantasies.
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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.
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USA Today Claudia Puig
Pan's Labyrinth artfully fuses a war film with a family melodrama and a fairy tale. The result is visually stunning and emotionally shattering.
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The Hollywood Reporter Ray Bennett
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."
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