Review of The Shape of Water (2017) by Hals R — 24 Dec 2017

Beautiful and extremely well acted. Every character is spot on Worthwhile addition to the human meets and falls in love with nonhuman genre.

This review of The Shape of Water (2017) was written by Hals R on 24 Dec 2017.

The Shape of Water has generally received very positive reviews.

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