Blending an engaging, if hectic, storyline with powerful visuals and winning perfs, Mexican Guillermo del Toro's psychodrama "The Devil's Backbone," has the helmer toning down the perverse, comicbook ...

are intriguing, establishing an aura of deep unease. The centerpiece of the orphanage is a gigantic, undetonated bomb that stands, half buried, in the courtyard. Though it has been defused, it signals ...