Movie Review: Guillermo del Toro brings heart and soul to the creature romance “THE SHAPE OF WATER”

As a storyteller, Guillermo del Toro has always been in love with monsters, so it was inevitable that he would make a film in which the protagonist becomes enamored of one. Attached years ago to a remake of THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON, he has re-envisioned its classic beast as an aquatic humanoid that one woman becomes very attached to in THE SHAPE OF WATER.