The Shape of Water (2017)

The Shape of Water is partly a code-scrambled fairy tale, partly a genetically modified monster movie, and altogether wonderful.

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Guillermo del Toro's beautiful blood-curdler is as timeless as a fairy tale.

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Sally Hawkins and Doug Jones are swoon-worthy as a star-crossed, human-amphibian couple.

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But as much as it has on its mind, it has even more in its happy-sad, brave and quiet heart.

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The Shape of Water is weird, wonderful, and one of the best films of the year.

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Girl meets Amphibian.

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There have been a number of filmmakers over the years (Lynch springs to mind) that have shown audiences that dreams and nightmares are only separated by the finest of lines, but only Del Toro appears to have the ability to skip along that knife edge and, when he is truly at his very best, turn that skip into a dance.

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Guillermo del Toro’s new film explores the mutual enchantment of a woman and a mysterious aquatic being.

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The Shape of Water is Hellboy and Pacific Rim director Guillermo del Toro's enchanting take on Beauty and the Beast.

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Guillermo del Toro, the modern godfather of monster movies, is pretty much the only guy who can pull off a Cold War beauty-and-the-beast story starring a merman.

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A sexy, violent, preposterous, beautiful fantasy, co-writer and director Guillermo del Toro’s most vivid and fully formed achievement since “Pan’s Labyrinth” 11 years ago.

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Once again, the writer-director proves his obsession with the past, and the way it shapes the present.

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The horror auteur's swooning fairy tale of a mute cleaning woman and a Cold War-era creature is one timeless love story.

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Sally Hawkins stars as a cleaner smitten with a scaly underwater beast in this cold war-era creature feature that melds ravishing romance with B-movie thrills.

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The piscatorial individual at the heart of The Shape of Water represents a downright Darwinian leap into ever deeper waters for the director, crossing as it does through the once-taboo meridian of interspecies ardor and ending its voyage at what appears to be only the beginning of a very fine romance.

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The Shape of Water is a poetic love letter to a monster.

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Guillermo Del Toro’s love of other movies is the real romantic center of The Shape Of Water.

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The Shape of Water may not achieve the aesthetic and thematic heights of 2006’s “Pan’s Labyrinth,” which still stands as del Toro’s masterpiece. But it’s an endearing, even haunting film from one of cinema’s most inventive artists, one who manages to bend even the hoariest B-movie tropes to his idiosyncratic, deeply humanistic imagination.

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Yes, it’s called “The Shape of Water,” but the latest from monster-movie virtuoso Guillermo del Toro is never quite as juicy as you’d hope.

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"The Shape of Water" shows over and over again the demonizing of the "Other," the heartlessness of denying living creatures dignity.

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The impudent, unruly streak that so often gives Guillermo del Toro’s films their pulse has been airbrushed away.

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