“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”.

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 ...