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Pan's Labyrinth

The 21st Century’s 100 greatest films (BBC)

El laberinto del fauno

2006

Guillermo del Toro

Ivana Baquero, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú, Doug Jones ...

7.2

120,039

Fantasy. Drama. Thriller In 1944, the third year of peace a thirteen-year-old girl, Ofelia moves to asmall village with her mother, Carmen who is in the last stages of pregnancy.Vidal, a cruel captain of the Francoist army and Carmen’s new husband isstationed in this village but Ofelia feels no affection whatsoever for thisman. Vidal’s mission is to finish off the last traces of republican resistancehidden in the mountains of the region. Vidal’s centre of ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly	"Amazing fairy tale (...) on the same altar of High Fantasy as the Lord of the Rings trilogy"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"One of the greatest of all fantasy films (...) The film is visually stunning. The creatures do not look like movie creations but like nightmares (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A bold juxtaposition of real and unreal worlds (...) An excellent performance from 12-year-old Baquero (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"[It] has the feel of something permanent (...) 'Pan’s Labyrinth' is a swift and accessible entertainment (...) It balances its own magical thinking with the knowledge that not everyone lives happily ever after."	POS
United Kingdom	Kim Newman Empire	"Dark, twisted and beautiful, this entwines fairy-tale fantasy with war-movie horror to startling effect (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"'Pan's Labyrinth', horrific and heartfelt in the way it sees the trauma of war through the eyes of a little girl, is some kind of great movie (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Noel Murray AV Club	"After two hours of dazzlingly fantastical images and stomach-turning gore, del Toro winds around, and finds his story's center."	POS
United States	Jake Cole Slant	"Del Toro truly reconciles the real and fantastic around the shared importance of stories (…) Rating: ★★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Justin Chang Variety	"[A] richly imagined and exquisitely violent fantasy (...) Del Toro’s masterful direction shifts from fantasy to reality and back again with remarkable fluidity."	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"Unlike most horror movies, this chiller gives equal prominence to reality and fantasy, though the reality is far more frightening."	POS

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