Double paragraph of the moment

He's never been subtle about this, and he's not here either: At one point a character regards Victor. "You are the monster," they tell him.

I cannot hope to convey, reader, just how wildly unnecessary that line is, given literally everything about the film we've been watching up to that point. It's del Toro gilding a lily that he's already spent more than two hours painstakingly crafting out of pure, 24-carat gold.

--Glen Weldon