"Pan's Labyrinth"

Saturday I took Carmen and Clovis down to the big Twin City to see Pan's Labyrinth. All three of us loved it (and all three of us despised the fact that the giant mega cinema we saw it in wouldn't even bother to clean up the garbage between shows). Most of the popular movies the mega cinema was showing had Rotten Tomatoes ratings of single digits (e.g. Norbit). The more exotic fare, like Pan's Labyrinth and The Queen has respectively 96% and 98%. I'm not sure what that means exactly but it was striking.

As for Pan's Labyrinth, obviously most reviewers liked it. So when you find one, you naturally wonder what it was that this one reviewer found so negative, or what unusual insight they brought to it. Or simply, why?

Courtesy of Claw of the Conciliator, here is one very negative review of it by Barbara Nicolosi. If you have the time, please read it and see what you think. Let us know. It seems to involve politics, but I'll wait to hear from anyone who has seen the movie and/or reads the review before writing anything else about it. My immediate response is found on Claw's post - and after readinig the review again, seeing the movie, and thinking about the comments on Claw's page, I still would stand by that reaction. But - see for yourself.