We saw Pan's Labyrinth last weekend, and I thought it was good, but not as good as I hoped.

It is by Guillermo Del Toro, director of Hellboy, Mimic, and the classic Chronos. It is a sort of sequel to his earlier film The Devils Backbone, and has a similar mood. He described Pan's Labyrinth as a 'feminine' movie to balance Devil's backbone which was more of a 'masculine' movie. I can see this very well- they are both set during the Spanish Civil war, in brooding environments where death comes quick and often. the protagonists are both children who are in a sense orphaned and uprooted from their happier homes.