Movie Review: ‘The Shape of Water’ is altogether wonderful
THE NEW YORK TIMES
By A.O. Scott
“The Shape of Water” is partly a code-scrambled fairy tale, partly a genetically modified monster movie, and altogether wonderful. Guillermo del Toro, the writer and director, is a passionate genre geek. The most obvious reference point for “The Shape of Water” is “Creature From the Black Lagoon,” a Cold War-era camp-horror classic about a strange beast, quasi-fish and sort-of human, discovered in the rain forests of the Amazon. In Mr. del Toro’s update, such a creature is brought to Baltimore in the early 1960s and kept in a tank at a government research lab, where he is subjected to brutal torture in the name of science and national security. [More]
By A.O. Scott
Sally Hawkins with Doug Jones, as the Asset, in “The Shape of Water.” Credit 20th Century Fox |