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Pan's Labyrinth - 8.5/10
Billed as an "adult fairy tale". Set in Franco-era Spain, a young girl and her mother move in with their sadistic step-father, a captain in Franco's army. The young girl then lives out a classic fairy tale - not the Disney kind - the kind that includes monsters that eat children.
Very well made, very engaging, and very graphic. My wife (who is usually pretty tough) had to look away from the screen a number of times. The whole movie is in Spanish with English subtitles. Not a movie I would want to watch often, but well worth a single viewing.
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