Guillermo Del Toro

Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)

Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)
Rating: ★★★½
Oct 9, 2008Demon Superhero/Comic-Book Adaptation
In the second and the best of his two Hellboy films, Guillermo Del Toro expands the first out with an amazing menagerie of eccentric and offbeat creatures, while Ron Perlman is again on winning form in the title role
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Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (2011)

Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (2011)
Rating: ★★
Aug 27, 2011House of Goblins
Guillermo Del Toro produced cinematic remake of a 1970s tv movie, this creates a good deal of creepy mood and atmosphere with Katie Holmes as a mother who finds goblins in the cellar, but never pushes any of it in a way that jolts audiences in their seats
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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)
Rating: ★½
Dec 14, 2013Epic Fantasy Adventure
The Hobbit became Peter Jackson's equivalent of the Star Wars prequels and this is the weakest work he has produced under the J.R.R. Tolkien banner. Five picaresque chapters of the book are extruded into bloated set-pieces
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Pacific Rim (2013)

Pacific Rim (2013)
Rating: ★★★½
Jul 12, 2013Giant Mecha Robots vs Giant Monsters
Giant mecha robots beating the crap out of giant monsters – what's not to like? In comparison to the Transformers films, Guillermo Del Toro looks to find the soul of the robot jock – in essence, Transformers for grown-ups
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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)
Rating: ★★½
Dec 20, 2014Epic Fantasy Adventure
After two bloated and over-padded Hobbit films, Peter Jackson finally gets it together and produces what everyone was expecting him to deliver, even if it means dragging one battle scene out to last an entire film
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The Shape of Water (2017)

The Shape of Water (2017)
Rating: ★★★★
Jan 13, 2018Romance with an Amphibian Man
Guillermo Del Toro makes monster movies with sympathy for the monster. This is his take onThe Creature from the Black Lagoon where the romance between creature and heroine is brought out to centre stage
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Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)

Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)
Rating: ★★
May 5, 2018Giant Mecha Robots
Pacific Rim wasn't Guillermo Del Toro's best film but it was a fun attempt to imagine giant Japanese mecha robots battling giant monsters. This is a sequel but without Del Toro it is reduced to no more than one of Michael Bay's Transformers films
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)
Rating: ★★
Nov 2, 2019Stories Come to Life to Kill People
Based on the popular series of children's horror tales, this Guillermo Del Toro written/produced effort borrows the idea from the Goosebumps film of having the stories come to life and the idea from Stranger Things and It with a group children fighting against them. On screen, the finished result never quite seems as much as it promises to be
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Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022)

Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022)
Rating: ★★★½
Dec 17, 2022Living Puppet Boy/Stop-Motion Animation
Guillermo Del Toro offers up his dark, more adult take on the classic children’s story in this beautifully made stop-motion animated film. Winner of that year's Academy Award for Best Animated Film.
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