Guillermo del Toro has spent his filmmaking career finding sympathy for monsters. His best-known stories balance compassion and edge. He won the Oscar for Best Picture for The Shape of Water, an aching if gory ballad of an aquatic creature falling in love with a human; his superhero movies focus on fringe characters such as Blade (half-man, half-vampire) and the demonic Hellboy, both outcasts operating in society’s shadows. It’s hardly a surprise, then, that he’s been trying to get an adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein off the ground for many years. The final result of that endeavor, now on Netflix, is a handsome, burnished production with gorgeous sets, colorful costumes, and the deep well of compassion that
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