Don't Edit Sally Hawkins in "The Shape of Water." (Photo provided to MLive.com by Fox Searchlight Pictures) Strickland isn’t just a one-dimensional cur. He’s power-hungry middle management ...

The Shape of Water is what happens when that is the goal ... in the movie who does treat her this way is its villain, Richard Strickland (Michael Shannon). When Giles narrates over the opening ...

The Shape Of Water plot summary is incredibly interesting ... it was captured from a South American river by Colonel Richard Strickland (played by Shannon), and is actually a fish-human hybrid ...

As close as two people, or a person and a creature, can get. But Strickland’s clock is ticking. “The Shape of Water” is a fantasy, a myth, a fairy tale, all that. Cinematographer Dan Lausten ...

Following Crimson Peak, The Shape of Water shows signs of del Toro having ... Accompanying the primordial creature is ambitious government agent Strickland (Michael Shannon), a classic American ...

In "The Shape of Water," his most impressive work since ... Her sense of order is upended when government agent Richard Strickland (a cruel Michael Shannon) shows up at the lab with classified ...

“The Shape of Water” may not achieve the aesthetic ... a relationship that alarms the fish-man’s handler, an agent named Strickland, played with sneering menace by Michael Shannon.

I think we can all agree that Guillermo del Toro is one of the strangest filmmakers currently working — so when I say that The Shape of Water may ... government agent Strickland shows up with ...

But it’s the sense of security in these images of wholesomeness or service that makes Strickland a dangerous person, unaware of the evil in which he participates. This truly human statement makes The ...

The Shape of Water is actually quite a beautiful film ... and soon enough sets in motion a plan to break him out before the scary Colonel Strickland (Michael Shannon) can kill him.