In a basically wordless performance, Sally Hawkins stars as a mute cleaning woman working at a high - tech government facility, where she forges a cross-species bond with the towering fishman (Doug Jones, back in prosthetic gills after his similarly aquatic turn in Del Toro's Hellboy movies) her bosses have fished out of the Amazon. (avclub.com)
It is wondrous and drips in romance... it's the La La Land of this year, with a sex - positive fishman thrown in to boot. (nextprojection.com)
In Guillermo del Toro's latest film The Shape of Water, a mute cleaning lady falls in love with a mysterious fishman. (io9.gizmodo.com)