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Pan's Labyrinth (2006)

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Reviews Counted:188

Fresh:179

Rotten:9

Average Rating:8.5/10

Consensus: Pan's Labyrinth is Alice in Wonderland for grown-ups, with the horrors of both reality and fantasy blended together into an extraordinary, spellbinding fable. Told through the eyes of a little girl whose imaginary world is inhabited by nightmarish creatures, Pan's Labyrinth is a visually imaginative and allegorical take on the fears she faced in Spain during WWII.

Runtime: 1 hr 59 mins

Genre: Horror/Suspense

US Box Office: $37,384,484

Synopsis: Written and directed by Guillermo del Toro, PAN'S LABYRINTH is a thrilling, violent fairy tale set in post-Civil War Spain. Ivana Baquero stars as Ofelia, a young girl who moves with her mother,... Written and directed by Guillermo del Toro, PAN'S LABYRINTH is a thrilling, violent fairy tale set in post-Civil War Spain. Ivana Baquero stars as Ofelia, a young girl who moves with her mother, Carmen (Ariadna Gil), into the home of Captain Vidal (Sergi López), in an abandoned mill in the middle of dark, dangerous woods. Vidal is leading his team of soldiers against resistance fighters--and he will do whatever is necessary to kill every last one of them. As Vidal bosses around the pregnant Carmen, a flying creature leads Ofelia through a garden labyrinth and into an underground cave ruled by Pan (HELLBOY's Doug Jones), who believes that Ofelia might be the lost princess of this strange yet magical place. To prove she is royalty, Ofelia must complete three tasks, each more difficult and terrifying than the previous one. Meanwhile, Vidal is becoming more and more paranoid, torturing and murdering seemingly at will. Del Toro (THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE, HELLBOY, CRONOS) creates a marvelous battle between good and evil, between heroes and villains, in both the real world aboveground and the mystical land below. Baquero gives a compelling performance as the terrorized Ofelia, who is befriended by Mercedes (Maribel Verdú), a woman who harbors some secrets of her own. Stellar production design, superb special effects, and a stirring score by Javier Navarrete add to the scary fun. Selected as the closing-night entry in the 2006 New York Film Festival, PAN'S LABYRINTH is a captivating story that is not for the squeamish. [More]

Starring: Ivana Baquero, Sergi Lopez, Maribel Verdú, Ariadna Gil

Starring: Ivana Baquero, Sergi Lopez, Maribel Verdú, Ariadna Gil, Doug Jones, Alex Angulo, Roger Casamajor, Ivana Massague

Director: Guillermo Del Toro

Director: Guillermo Del Toro
Screenwriter: Guillermo Del Toro
Producer: Berta Navarro, Alfonso Cuaron, Frida Torresblanco, Alvaro Augustin
Composer: Javier Navarrete
Studio: Picturehouse

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Like the folk tales from centuries past, Pan's Labyrinth is a dark odyssey with nightmarish visions and cruel threats...

Full Review Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | comment Comment
01/11/07
Sean Axmaker
Sean Axmaker
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Pan's Labyrinth catapults del Toro to the top ranks of international filmmakers. His fertile imagination appears to have no limit, and all his previous work is hopefully a mere warm-up for a fecund future.

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
01/11/07
Marjorie Baumgarten
Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle

The creator of such pulp prodigies as Hellboy and Blade II, del Toro mingles myth and history in Pan's Labyrinth, and produces a masterpiece of magical realism.

Full Review Source: San Jose Mercury News | comment Comment
01/11/07
Bruce Newman
Bruce Newman
San Jose Mercury News

Pan's Labyrinth, with its unblinking sense of the baroque, may be a tough sell for anyone generally not interested in fantasy. But the film is one of the most original and spectacular of the year.

Full Review Source: South Florida Sun-Sentinel | comment Comment
01/11/07
Phoebe Flowers
Phoebe Flowers
South Florida Sun-Sentinel

A dark, creepy, sad tale of incorruptible innocence and ultimate sacrifice.

Full Review Source: Mark Reviews Movies | comment Comment
01/10/07
Mark Dujsik
Mark Dujsik
Mark Reviews Movies

One of the most fascinating, imaginative yet darkly disturbing political fables of our time.

Full Review Source: www.susangranger.com | comment Comment
01/10/07
Susan Granger
Susan Granger
www.susangranger.com

a captivating, albeit unstable, blend of anti-Fascist social commentary and a visually sumptuous childhood fable

Full Review Source: Perihelion Journal | comment Comment
01/09/07
Jay Antani
Jay Antani
Perihelion Journal

...a finely crafted film of Ofelia's two distinctive worlds where the humans can be the real monsters and the creatures beneath the earth showing humanity.

Full Review Source: Reeling Reviews | comment Comment
01/08/07
Robin Clifford
Robin Clifford
Reeling Reviews

Del Toro's made a lot imaginative films. I think this is his masterpiece to date.

Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper | comment Comment
01/08/07
Richard Roeper
Richard Roeper
Ebert & Roeper
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His palette here is deep-toned, with bottomless blacks and supersaturated oranges and blues -- as if the Walt Disney of Pinocchio had collaborated with Goya.

Full Review Source: New York Magazine | comment Comment
01/06/07
David Edelstein
David Edelstein
New York Magazine

I've seen this film three times and cannot claim to know whether its fantasy characters and events are meant to exist solely in the imagination of the 12-year-old girl at the center of the story, or if she is the only human aware of them.

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
01/06/07
Jack Mathews
Jack Mathews
New York Daily News

[Pan's Labyrinth] isn't really a movie about one person or one historical moment; it's about the larger question of how history judges what we do.

Full Review Source: AV Club | comment Comment
01/06/07
Noel Murray
Noel Murray
AV Club

Pan's Labyrinth artfully fuses a war film with a family melodrama and a fairy tale. The result is visually stunning and emotionally shattering. Though graphically violent in parts, it still manages to be enchanting.

Full Review Source: USA Today | comment Comment
01/04/07
Claudia Puig
Claudia Puig
USA Today
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The horrors of both the realistic and surrealistic worlds are woven into the beautifully aligned narrative structure of del Toro's story. This is fabulous filmmaking in every sense of the word.

Full Review Source: Newsday | comment Comment
01/04/07
Gene Seymour
Gene Seymour
Newsday

The childhood desperation that permeates his dramatic sensibility is elevated by del Toro's sincere devotion to imaginary belief systems rooted in cycles of nature.

Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | comment Comment
01/04/07
Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com

[Th film is] distinguished by another in a long line of recent child performances that are nothing short of astonishing in their accomplished matter-of-factness.

Full Review Source: New York Observer | comment Comment
01/03/07
Andrew Sarris
Andrew Sarris
New York Observer

A fantasy film definitely not made for children, Guillermo del Toro's "Pan's Labyrinth" is a strange but enchanting voyage into the hellish imagination of a young girl as she comes to terms with the infernal reality of her life.

Full Review Source: Sympatico.ca | comment Comment
01/03/07
Angela Baldassarre
Angela Baldassarre
Sympatico.ca

It’s both blissfully naïve and emotionally heartbreaking, a movie which calls on fantasy not to distort reality, but to enhance it.

Full Review Source: Zertinet Movies | comment Comment
01/03/07
Steven Snyder
Steven Snyder
Zertinet Movies

The kind of familiar that astonishes with our inability to imagine it better than the way del Toro has.

Full Review Source: Film Freak Central | comment Comment
01/02/07
Walter Chaw
Walter Chaw
Film Freak Central

An engrossing feat of craft and imagination, 'Pan's Labyrinth' is among the best films of 2006 and would stand out in any year.

Full Review Source: ReelTalk Movie Reviews | comment Comment
01/02/07
John P. McCarthy
John P. McCarthy
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
 
 
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