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Frankenstein ★★

(MA) 150 minutes

Anyone who’s ever seen a film by Guillermo del Toro knows he loves monsters. Maybe he loves them a little too much, though his new version of Frankenstein doesn’t go to the lengths of his Oscar-winning The Shape of Water , where the relationship between the mute heroine (Sally Hawkins) and a captured sea monster (Doug Jones) eventually turned physical in the fullest sense.

What we do get here is Mia Goth in a fuchsia-pink bonnet and blood-red gown, cosying up to the bare-chested Creature (Jacob Elordi) imprisoned in the basement of the dank Gothic laboratory of his maker, Victor Frankenstein (Oscar Isaac).

In this telling of the tale, Goth’s character Elizabeth is a pure-hearted amateur biologist with compassion for all God’s creatures, barring

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