Read the Empire Movie review of Pan’s Labyrinth. Dark, twisted and beautiful, this entwines fairy-tale fantasy with war-movie horror to startling...

It's a truism that fairy tales aren't so much about entertaining children as about leaving them with permanent emotional scars, but few of them can be as gru...

Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men is the latest cultural harbinger of the End of Days, of nature gone haywire and human nature following apace. Or maybe it...

"Pan's Labyrinth" is a political fable in the guise of a fairy tale. Or maybe it's the other way around.

Extented Reviews from James Berardinelli. Approved as a critic by Rotten Tomatoes. Fantasy novelist.

"Pan's Labyrinth" is one of the greatest of all fantasy films, even though it is anchored so firmly in the reality of war. On first viewing, it is challenging

Guillermo del Toro, who calls himself “the geek from Guadalajara,” fires up a classic cinematic fantasy in Pan’s Labyrinth, a film for all ages, as lon...

In this fairytale for adults, the true horror is in the real world.

Richly imagined and exquisitely violent fantasy from writer-director Guillermo del Toro. A fairy tale not even remotely intended for children, this entrancin...