“… where del Toro’s gothic instincts flower into full-blown Romanticism.”
“… pushes the title character toward something demon-possessed, if not demonic.”
“Another Richard Linklater talkfest featuring his favorite talker…”
“The score by Volker Bertelmann has moments that are the audio equivalent of your stomach dropping out.”
“… understands the urgency of this moment.”
“… there is a gravitation toward the repugnant that goes beyond description and toward a place of awed fascination.”
“… carries serious moral weight.”
“I have to admire anything that tries to play in the same sandbox as Beetlejuice and The Nightmare Before Christmas…”
“Warren Beatty cracked the biopic code…”
“… curious about underbelly imagery—and the psychic pull such things can have on us.”
