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  Review by davidehrlich ★★★½

  Guillermo del Toro stop-motion HOLLOW KNIGHT movie when?

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  Review by kársten ★★★★

  good clean fun

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  Review by BRÁT ★★★★ 11

  dang, GDT dropped that little wooden freak right into WWII-era fascist Italy! Pinocchio in his Porco Rosso era (call that Porcorocchio), but instead of his companion being the most beautiful woman in the world, it's the most beautiful cricket in the world (Ewan McGregor, who sings an original song, as does... Christoph Waltz?!).

  oh, and Lydia Tár plays a monkey. perfect voice cast that directly appeals to me. GDT knows i've been burned too many times by the 12 other Pinocchio movies released within the past year. thank you king for reforming the Pinocchio-industrial complex. now we can finally abolish it :)

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  Review by Jáy ★★★★ 1

  all rise for the anti-facist pinocchio

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  Review by SilentDawn ★★★½ 2

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  Cute, exquisitely animated, very Del Toro. Opening ten minutes or so is one of the highlights of his career. Carries a haunting rumination of grief alongside its overt political framework. Was some of the Mussolini stuff a bit trite? Maybe, but it's a small price to pay for a stop-motion film that doesn't treat its younger audience like idiots. Ewan McGregor's cricket is a marvelous vocal performance.
  

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  Review by the film drunk ★★★½ 1

  Robert Zemeckis how you feelin

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  Review by Matt Neglia ★★★★½ 4

  GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO is a remarkable cinematic wonder from a master storyteller. This dark retelling of the relationship between a father & son emotionally resonates deeper than any previous version. David Bradley’s voice performance as Geppetto broke my heart. Superbly crafted with love & care from all departments. A pure, timeless joy to forever cherish.

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  Review by Austin Burke ★★★★½ 11

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  A father's wish magically brings a wooden boy to life in Italy, giving him a chance to care for the child.

  This is not your grandfather’s Pinocchio, and that is all for the better as Guillermo del Toro co-directs a masterfully animated story. Mark Gustafson is the other filmmaker at play here, and both are able to mold a fascinating story out of lore we are familiar with. There have been so many animated/live-action incarnations of this character, especially as of late. After the Disney failure just a few months ago, I felt as if I was over it, but this is a much darker look at mortality and more…

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  Review by Joe Aragon ★★★★½ 7

  What happens, happens. And then we’re gone. 

  TL;DR: Pinocchio is the best animated movie of 2022 , one of the best movies of 2022, and I cried like a baby.

  The word timeless gets thrown around a lot, especially when it comes to conversations surrounding Pinocchio. This makes sense considering there's seemingly infinite adaptations of the Carlo Collodi tale extending all the way back to its publication in 1883. But while the story clearly has stood the test of time, very little has changed since its 1940 Disney adaptation, (as of yesterday) the gold standard adaptation. Some versions are darker, some funnier and some weirder (Pinocchio 3000) but the central conceit had remained the same and with each release, Pinocchio…

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  Review by NicoPico ★★★★½ 2

  Guillermo’s big “fuck you” to Disney

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  Review by leeza ★★★½ 7

  came out of the film assuming cate blanchett voiced the ethereal deities representing life and death only to be bodied by the fact that she voiced the monkey that only makes monkey noises

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  Review by HectorPortillo ★★★★

  Imagínate ser el que dijo “hagamos un remake  live action de Pinocho el mismo año y compítamos contra Guillermo Del Toro.

  Los suicidaron sin duda. Pero que película más bella. Realmente me pareció algo muy especial