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Movie review: &#8216;The Shape of Water&#8217;

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“The Shape of Water” makes audiences fall in love with a relationship between a mythical amphibian creature and a mute janitor. The plot of Guillermo del Toro’s latest film sounds a bit like an LSD-induced daydream: A mute janitor named Elisa (Sally Hawkins) falls in love with an amphibious creature (Doug Jones) that the U.S.

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Movie review: ‘The Shape of Water’

By Tiger Zhong

Dec. 7, 2017 9:23 p.m.