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100
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Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
Del Toro is almost alone in his ability to re-create on screen the wide-eyed exhilaration and disturbing grotesqueness that is the legacy of reading comics on the page.
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90
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Washington Post Ann Hornaday
As he has done in all his movies, from creature features such as "Mimic" to serious dramas such as "Pan's Labyrinth," del Toro creates unforgettable images, filled with color, texture, lyricism and horror.
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90
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Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
Hugely inventive -- and smashingly beautiful.
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88
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Imagine the forges of hell crossed with the extraterrestrial saloon on Tatooine, and you have a notion of Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy II: The Golden Army.
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83
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Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
The Golden Army dazzles like something out of "Jason and the Argonauts." To make a comic-book fantasy this derivative yet this dazzling requires more than technique. It takes a director in touch with his inner hellboy.
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75
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Rolling Stone Peter Travers
A surprise package of fun, fright and untamed imagination.
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75
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San Francisco Chronicle Peter Hartlaub
The talented fantasy filmmaker and heir to the "Lord of the Rings" throne gets the tone right throughout Hellboy 2, and the hip retro charm alone is enough to merit recommendation.
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75
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USA Today Claudia Puig
Highly imaginative and consistently amusing without pretensions.
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75
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Boston Globe Ty Burr
Of all the comic book movies that have spun out of theaters this long and pulpy summer, Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy II: The Golden Army is the most unapologetically comic book-y.
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70
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The New York Times A.O. Scott
The whole affair is pulpy, jokey, sometimes touching and frequently nonsensical: a big mess and, mostly, a lot of fun.
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