(L-R) Adil El Arbi, Sofia Coppola and Quentin Tarantino.
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For every film that makes it to our screens, hundreds if not thousands fail to make it.
Guillermo del Toro poses backstage with his Oscar.
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Del Toro’s Pinocchio stands out because it couples existential issues with real-world historical catastrophes.
A still from del Torro’s Pinocchio.
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Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio explores one of the filmmaker’s signature tropes – a child abandoned amid a fascist regime.
La Llorona.
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Latin American filmmakers wanting to alert the world to human rights abuses are turning to the supernatural to tell compelling stories
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Netflix has chosen a high-quality Mexican arthouse movie as a flagship production for its new distribution model.
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Kiselev Andrey Valerevich
From Dundee to Dublin, horror spectaculars are springing up like zombies from the dead.
The Shape of Water offers a clever allegory to Donald’s Trump’s presidency, with Michael Shannon’s character (on the left) representing some of the president’s worst qualities.
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Not everyone can escape to the ocean’s depths to avoid the Trump presidency, but we can escape to the movies. ‘The Shape of Water’ reminds audiences of the humanity of those who are marginalized.
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Mexican directors have won in their category four years out of the past five.
“The Shape of Water” film is a beautiful allegory about accepting differences.
James Jean
The Shape of Water is an entertaining movie, but it also has a timely, allegorical message about the challenges we may face with new scientific discoveries, and our willingness to accept difference.