The Shape Of Water [better]

She learned that touch is a language without grammar. A scarred hand pressed to a gill. An egg boiled just so. A stack of old musicals where people broke into song instead of silence. Love, she realized, is mostly choosing to stay in the room when everything says leave.

No analysis of The Shape of Water is complete without acknowledging the performance of Sally Hawkins. Without a single line of dialogue, Hawkins conveys a spectrum of emotion that most actors cannot achieve with a Shakespearean monologue. The Shape of Water