Local Hellboy movie reviews

The New Hellboy Reboot Is Bad as Hell [in print as What the Hell?]

Neil Marshall's reboot loses all the witty charm and imaginativeness of Guillermo del Toro's 2004 film.

Tricia Olszewski

Washington City Paper April 12, 2019 p. 24

online at https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/arts/film-tv/blog/21063985/hellboy-reviewed

The 'Hellboy' reboot has more gore and profanity than the original. That doesn't make it better. [in print as A four-letter word for this demon: Flat].

By Alan Zilberman

Washington Post April 12 2019 p. weekend 27

https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/the-hellboy-reboot-has-more-gore-and-profanity-than-the-original-that-doesnt-make-it-better/2019/04/10/bde80b08-5105-11e9-88a1-ed346f0ec94f_story.html

'Hellboy': Hell, No

Chris Klimek

NPR April 11, 2019

https://www.npr.org/2019/04/11/711810486/hellboy-hell-no

and the NY Times:

'Hellboy' Review: What's Big and Horned and Red All Over?

By Jeannette Catsoulis

A version of this article appears in print on April 12, 2019, on Page C6 of the New York edition with the headline: Witches, Excalibur And Nazis

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/11/movies/hellboy-review.html