Genre: Film
Grade: A-/B+
Notable People: Sally Hawkins, Richard Jenkins, Micheal Shannon, Octavia Spencer, Directed by: Guillermo del Toro
Title: The Shape of Water
Review: A beautifully done film- clever, creative, heartwarming an brave. Hawkins is a discovery, Jenkins in another masterful role and Shannon is his usual personification of evil (see his mobster psychopath in Boardwalk Empire). Del Toro is masterful at putting scenes together and getting inside character’s heads. I like this film quite well (and the messages and metaphors are pretty powerful)..…though not as much as the hype for it might have prescribed.