Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein” is a monstrous hit with critics, who have dubbed the latest adaptation of Mary Shelley’s allegorical classic “undeniably beautiful.”

The Academy Award winner’s Netflix film stars Oscar Isaac as the titular mad doctor, a brilliant but egotistical scientist who cobbles together a man known as The Creature (Jacob Elordi) in a grotesque experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both Frankenstein and his creation.

As of Wednesday, the film held an 82% Certified Fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes and a Generally Favorable rating of 75 on Metacritic.

Leading the pack in praise, RogetEbert.com — awarding the film its full four stars — hailed the writer-director for making something “almost new, and definitely rich and strange, out of a story we a

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