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OFCS Rating: 94% Fresh |
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4.5/5 | "Fantasía sin azúcar y sin moralismos edulcorados." |
| Cinenganos |
| Alex Ramirez |
5/5 | "in Pan's Labyrinth, the world of Ofelia's imagination and the realities of Falangist Spain are two different, ideologically opposed ways of telling the same story - a story of tyranny, resistance and the timeless struggle between good and evil." |
| Channel 4 Film |
| Anton Bitel |
B+ | "Visually, this is del Toro at his most fearless, effortlessly shaping a lurid realm of magic for Ofelia, and a stark, cold-blooded fear factory for the Captain." |
| OhmyNews.com |
| Brian Orndorf |
4/5 | "In Pan's Labyrinth, del Toro pays as much attention to his humans as he does to his beasts, unleashing a story with all the shivering intensity and satisfying denouement of the darkest Grimm's fairy tale." |
| Filmcritic.com |
| Chris Barsanti |
A- | "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." |
| ColeSmithey.com |
| Cole Smithey |
3/4 | "An uneasy mix of childlike, Tim Burton-esque imagination and brutal Spanish war-torn drama." |
| rec.arts.movies.reviews |
| David N. Butterworth |
A | "In no way can one mistake this for a children's film." |
| Ozus' World Movie Reviews |
| Dennis Schwartz |
4.5/5 | "Pan’s Labyrinth is one of those underdog films that needs to be seen and I encourage anyone who likes movies of any kind to check it out." |
| Film Threat |
| Don R. Lewis |
| "Pan's Labyrinth does speak to the poetic and the brutal in man." |
| ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
| Donald J. Levit |
2.5/4 | "Is (1) a victim of its own hype, and (2) nothing like what it's being marketed as, but there is an audience involvement writer-director Guillermo del Toro manages to work up all the same." |
| DustinPutman.com |
| Dustin Putman |
2.5/4 | "Unlike The Devil's Backbone, Pan's Labyrinth's allegories are not particularly rich, but the film's fantasy sequences remain seductive pageants of spiritual and cultural nuance." |
| Slant Magazine |
| Ed Gonzalez |
2/5 | "Un ambicioso y no del todo convincente cuento de hadas para adultos, que reivindica el poder de la imaginación como vía de escape ante la adversidad y como arma frente a la intolerancia." |
| Uruguay Total |
| Enrique Buchichio |
A- | "This morbid, visually stunning fairy tale gives you plenty to think about and plenty to be entertained by." |
| EricDSnider.com |
| Eric D. Snider |
| "Fully deserving of its place in a distinguished political-fabulist lineage" |
| CinePassion |
| Fernando F. Croce |
A- | "An astonishingly inventive portrait of childhood fears and hopes, an eerily beautiful modern fairy tale that truly merits the overused adjective magical." |
| One Guy's Opinion |
| Frank Swietek |
4/5 | "A relentlessly grim and violent film that blends a redemptive fairy tale with a glimpse of the horrors of war in 1944 Spain." |
| Spirituality and Practice |
| Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat |
D | "Too adult for children and too simplistic for most adults, it ultimately leaves us with some of the prettiest cinematic pictures of the year. And nothing more." |
| Modern Fabulousity |
| Gabriel Shanks |
3.5/4 | "An achievement. Many films with 'split personalities' invest all their creative energy into one aspect of the story, causing the other one to founder and feel obligatory." |
| ReelViews |
| James Berardinelli |
4/5 | "Pan's Labyrinth, a masterpiece of fantasia by Mexican director Guillermo del Toro, is at turns exquisitely beautiful, horrifying, and heart-wrenchingly sweet." |
| Q Network Film Desk |
| James Kendrick |
3/4 | "a captivating, albeit unstable, blend of anti-Fascist social commentary and a visually sumptuous childhood fable" |
| Perihelion Journal |
| Jay Antani |
3.5/4 | "A brilliant juxtaposition of truth and imagination guaranteed to lay waste to every emotion." |
| Palo Alto Weekly |
| Jeanne Aufmuth |
8/10 | "Del Toro's obvious strength here is his forceful vision of a night-time fantasy and his ability to bring that vision to pulsating life." |
| Window to the Movies |
| Jeffrey Chen |
9/10 | "I only wish more people in Hollywood would take chances on films with this kind of imagination behind it!" |
| JoBlo's Movie Emporium |
| JoBlo |
5/5 | "Stunningly beautiful and movingly honest, this is one of best films of the year and another notch on the belt of one of the today's most exciting filmmakers." |
| FilmFocus |
| Joe Utichi |
A | "the most beautiful and redemptive film of 2006" |
| Old School Reviews |
| John A. Nesbit |
9/10 | "We feel pity, terror, disgust, wonder, astonishment, shock, and, ultimately, hope. It does everything we could ask ...." |
| DVDTown.com |
| John J. Puccio |
| "An engrossing feat of craft and imagination, 'Pan's Labyrinth' is among the best films of 2006 and would stand out in any year." |
| ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
| John P. McCarthy |
4/5 | "It is excellently made, and I am very glad I saw it, but I could never see it again, no matter how cool the faun was." |
| Cinerina |
| Karina Montgomery |
3.5/4.0 | "... told both from the numb, accepting view of an adult... and from the eyes of a child where even the tiniest glimmer of hope pierces the darkness like a shard of starlight." |
| MovieCrypt.com |
| Kevin A. Ranson |
4/5 | "[Guillermo] del Toro is a master at this type of film, going beyond the realm of mere fantasy to create a fable wrapped within a carefully crafted drama." |
| Cinematical |
| Kim Voynar |
4/4 | "Ranks with the best examinations of children's inner lives, but be warned: Its haunting insights are best left to adults." |
| TV Guide's Movie Guide |
| Maitland McDonagh |
3.5/4 | "A dark, creepy, sad tale of incorruptible innocence and ultimate sacrifice." |
| Mark Reviews Movies |
| Mark Dujsik |
9/10 | "Guillermo del Toro gives us one of the masterpieces of the fantasy film." |
| rec.arts.movies.reviews |
| Mark R. Leeper |
3/4 | "Maybe Del Toro wanted to make two different movies and decided to merge them together." |
| Movie Habit |
| Marty Mapes |
| "Holy ruby slippers, is this one grim film. Enthrallingly spooky, appropriately frightful, but grim. Grim like it might make the Brothers Grimm say, "Well, it's a bit dark, isn't it?" in an accusatory tone." |
| Flick Filosopher |
| MaryAnn Johanson |
3.5/4 | "Pan's Labyrinth is bold and original, a mini-masterpiece of fantasy filmmaking that deserves to be seen by a wide audience." |
| Aisle Seat |
| Mike McGranaghan |
B | "Has a sumptuous visual creepiness that contributes to its affecting portrait of shattered childhood innocence." |
| Lessons of Darkness |
| Nick Schager |
5/5 | "Triste como A Espinha do Diabo, esta é uma obra de força inegável e de poética melancolia, encerrando-se com uma nota ambígua que levará o espectador a refletir profundamente sobre o que acabou de testemunhar." |
| Cinema em Cena |
| Pablo Villaca |
5/5 | "One of the most dazzling fairy tales to hit the big screen in a long time." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Peter Sobczynski |
4.5/5 | "The dual story threads merge seamlessly in del Toro's elegant style." |
| Shadows on the Wall |
| Rich Cline |
A- | "For adults who remember those long-ago nights under the covers... its temptations prove almost too much to resist." |
| Flipside Movie Emporium |
| Rob Vaux |
B+ | "A film of great visual imagination, depicting a child's dream world on one hand, and man's inhumanity to man in the real world." |
| Laramie Movie Scope |
| Robert Roten |
B | "...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." |
| Reeling Reviews |
| Robin Clifford |
A | "Like the folk tales from centuries past, Pan's Labyrinth is a dark odyssey with nightmarish visions and cruel threats..." |
| Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Sean Axmaker |
2.5/4 | "Del Toro has realized a work of art that's too terrifying and politically motivated for young audience members who should be swept up in Ofelia's royal dreams." |
| Charlotte Weekly |
| Sean O'Connell |
| "Pan's Labyrinth us that such fantasy offers no real escape from dreadful reality." |
| Cinefantastique |
| Steve Biodrowski |
10/10 | "One of the most fascinating, imaginative yet darkly disturbing political fables of our time." |
| www.susangranger.com |
| Susan Granger |
4/4 | "The kind of familiar that astonishes with our inability to imagine it better than the way del Toro has." |
| Film Freak Central |
| Walter Chaw |
4/4 | "Blending fantasy and reality, Pan's Labyrinth is an engaging film about a young girl looking to escape the horrendous environment in which she finds herself." |
| Oscar Guy |
| Wesley Lovell |
| "Best Film of 2006" |
| Wolf Entertainment Guide |
| William Wolf |
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OFCS Rating: 94% Fresh |
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