Hellboy Reviews
When the movie's story line concentrates on the character of Hellboy and his relationships with those important to him, the film becomes a unique romp, with an exciting yet vulnerable superhero at the center who just happens to be the spawn of Satan.
Christian Science Monitor
The screenplay has flashes of real wit, and Perlman is perfect in the title role.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Common Sense Media
Somewhat entertaining, but too scary for many.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Dark Horizons
Inventive but derivative, well performed yet slightly hokey, visually lush yet over-stylised.
NPR.org
Anyone can send an immense, computer-generated vegetable monster rampaging at the base of the Brooklyn Bridge, but it takes a special kind of imagination to do it in a way that's thrilling, emotionally complex, and rapturously beautiful all at once.
Urban Cinefile
High concept fantasy through the eyes of creative genius of Guillermo del Toro
Sacramento News & Review
Hellboy both kicks butt and falls in love, in an adventure that is thrilling, funny and touching.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Cinema Sight
A strong anti-superhero movie that turns the genre sideways.
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| Original Score: 3/4
KPBS.org
Del Toro and Perlman essentially make you forget that Hellboy's this bizarre creature because Perlman invests him with such humanity. And maybe what makes him most human are his flaws.
Groucho Reviews
Ron Perlman--the Lon Chaney of our time--plays Hellboy with grit, humor, and a depth of feeling which, barely, grounds the movie.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Eye for Film
They say the devil gets all the best tunes and, on the strength of this latest comicbook adaptation, he gets all the good one-liners, too.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Projection Booth
Artistically resonant even as it deliberately follows a contemporary narrative structure.
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| Original Score: B+
eFilmCritic.com
Perlman, at age 53, strides in like a hungry young actor itching to prove something, only with 22 years of experience lending him charisma and confidence.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Played by Ron Perlman, he's the most magnetic action hero I've come across in a long while, though I couldn't make heads or tails of this story.
Unfortunately, after setting up this fresh blue-collar scenario in the movie's first hour, Del Toro wallows in pyrotechnics.
Lawrence.com
As expertly played by Perlman, even with tons of make-up and prostheteics, our hero is a good 'monster' whose origin haunts him to the bone.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Hollywood.com
Stylish sci-fi director Guillermo Del Toro brings Mike Mignola's stone-fisted, horny (literally!) cult comic book hero to life in this wry, glossy adventure.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Time Out
Top CriticDel Toro, in love with his source but never overawed by it, keeps things moving; Perlman ties it together with some of the driest witticisms this side of Indiana Jones. Like we said: fun.
Bullz-Eye.com
An experience you can't miss.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Lessons of Darkness
Del Toro's energized adventure has humor, excitement, and soul to burn.
