A fantastic film

Rating: 8/10 (9 June 2018)

His is a gorgeous film, with a well-considered look and feel. The color palette is gorgeous and makes sense, as Strickland fears the color teal and Eliza slowly gains more red color as the movie progresses.
There's also a bravura scene that recalls Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in Follow the Fleet. It totally takes the movie into an even more fantastic world, if that is possible. It's my favorite part of a film that I found plenty to love in.
This still isn't my favorite del Toro movie (I love Crimson Peak so much), but it's still one of the better movies you'll see. You know who doesn't agree with me? Rex Reed. He called it "a loopy, lunkheaded load of drivel" and, referring to Hawkins, said that described people with disabilities were "defective creatures" and that her character was mentally handicapped. Oh yeah. And he also thought that Benicio del Toro directed it. I've hated Rex Reed's reviews since I was a kid and this doesn't change my mind at all. Perhaps we should remember his turn in Myra Breckinridge when considering his reviews.