Pan's Labyrinth

Director: Guillermo del Toro

Cast: Mirabel Verdu, Sergi Lopez, Ivana Baquero, Doug Jones

(Warner Brothers, 2006) Rated: R

by Bill Gibron

Short Ends & Leader Editor

As harsh as it is human, filmmaking doesn’t get any more enlightened than this. Like the Brothers Grimm before him, this is a filmmaker who wants to give fairytales back their teeth.
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