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Weekend Film Reviews

The Shape of Water

Hosted by Joe Morgenstern Dec. 01, 2017 Entertainment
Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water is a flow of sumptuous images set to music, a flood tide of feelings with a mythic undertow..

Describing the beauties of this romantic fable can lead to burbly verbal excesses, because The Shape of Water is such an exotic, and erotic, mixture: weird science straight out of the comic books. Directing from a script he wrote with Vanessa Taylor, Guillermo del Toro's made a movie that uses the power of classic cinema to pull its themes together more or less seamlessly.

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