Article: A dark fairy tale that's simply magic.

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Newsday (Melville, NY)
Article date:
December 29, 2006
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Byline: Gene Seymour

Dec. 29--(4 STARS) PAN'S LABYRINTH

(R). Director Guillermo del Toro ("Hellboy") has fashioned a magical-realist masterwork in which a young girl (Ivana Baquero) in 1940s Spain battles a wicked stepfather (Sergi Lopez) and her own fears in two separate worlds. With Maribel Verdu and Doug Jones. 1:54 (graphic violence, nightmarish imagery). In Spanish with English subtitles. At select theaters.

Sometimes, the very best movies demand more from us than we're prepared to give. A prospective viewer of "Pan's Labyrinth," for instance, may know nothing going in about its story beyond the fact that it contains elements of both the ...

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