Frankenstein

It reviews better than it plays — admired more than it is enjoyed.

• “One of del Toro’s finest, this is epic-scale storytelling of uncommon beauty, feeling and artistry.”

  David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter · 100

• “Although the narrative is faithful to the book, del Toro rewrites the dialogue almost completely, an exercise whose only chance of success relies on his ingrained understanding of Shelley’s writing and tonal cadence. The result is a stunning piece of text, acutely aware of the labyrinthine nature of our most primitive emotions, and zigzagging through musings on love and loss and want with the careful rhythms of a writer who gets that tackling the grandiose often merits delicacy.”

  Rafaela Sales Ross, The Playlist · 100

• “Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein is a breathtaking coup, an exhilarating riposte to the conventional wisdom about dream projects. The writer-director makes something almost new, and definitely rich and strange, out of a story we all thought we knew well.”

  Glenn Kenny, RogerEbert.com · 100

• “Perhaps it's hyperbole to call the film del Toro’s masterpiece – especially a story that has been told countless times. But this is a work that is the accumulation of three-and-a-half decades of filmmaking knowledge. Gory and grim it may be, but it is a tragic tale told in a captivating manner.”

  James Mottram, Radio Times · 100

• “Lush, melodramatic, sweepingly romantic and achingly emotional, it is a tale of fathers and sons, of lovers and outcasts, of men as the true monsters.”

  Alissa Wilkinson, The New York Times · 100