“Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” may have premiered hot on the wooden heels of Robert Zemeckis’s live-action/CGI remake of the 1940 Disney cartoon, but no one is likely to get the two muddled up.

It is “truly enchanting” to watch traditional puppetry at a time when we’re “bombarded by artificially created images”. Interacting seamlessly with the human characters, Pinocchio is “masterfully” ...

Meticulous direction and an excellent cast bring to life the story of Geppetto and the puppet he crafts from wood ‘Fast is FUN!” bellows Pinocchio as he tears about the stage, testing the limits of ...

In his most commercial film to date, due to open wide on 600 copies in Italy a week before Christmas, Roman auteur Matteo Garrone serves Pinocchio straight up – and in so doing, creates the most ...

This review originally ran Oct. 15, 2022, after the film’s world premiere at the BFI London Film Festival. “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” may have premiered hot on the wooden heels of Robert ...