Just as Pinocchio wasn’t a real boy to start, this wasn’t a real movie – and there’s almost no chance it learnt enough lessons to become one with a soul.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 18, 2022

Hi-Diddle-Dee-Dee, it didn’t work for me.

Full Review | Sep 16, 2022

A misguided redo.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 14, 2022

Instead of capturing the old-school charm of the original, the new film looks as dead-eyed as one of Zemeckis’s motion-capture characters, as it recites the familiar fable of the puppet who wanted to be a boy.

Full Review | Sep 12, 2022

A well-intentioned work that largely falls flat, it arrives as just another widget in Disney’s “remake ’em all!” agenda, one whose pedigree offered the hope of something better.

Full Review | Sep 9, 2022

The verbal jokes for adults barely raise a smile, but Zemeckis visually remains the pro he’s always been, moving smoothly through a stylised world.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 8, 2022

Think of this Pinocchio, at its best, as Zemeckis’s conglomerate-backed cultural critique, a nauseated state of the artistic union typified by a scene in which our little timber-carved innocent quizzically contemplates a steaming pile of horse dung.

Full Review | Sep 8, 2022

Mostly, Pinocchio itself washes ashore into a kind of no-man's land -- too uninspired to bring anything fresh to the material, dutifully playing like a pallid redo of the 1940 classic.

Full Review | Sep 8, 2022

The effect is an awkward fusion of fake and real that strains to find any magic in between. This Pinocchio, unfortunately, is no real boy, at all.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 8, 2022

The reimagining goes awry in the opening number — not “When You Wish Upon a Star,” the Oscar-winner that ascended to become the company’s signature tune, but a new ballad, “When He Was Here With Me,” sung by Geppetto about his freshly concocted dead son.

Full Review | Original Score: D | Sep 8, 2022

...for the most part, things shuffle along charmingly enough for a welcome but hardly necessary reimagining of Collodi’s text—at least until they really, really do not.

Full Review | Sep 8, 2022

The animation is now so hyper-advanced, the landscape of the movie so eerily both this and that, it is easy to get confused about where reality stops and ones and zeros take over.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 8, 2022

Like Disney’s tepid 2019 live-action remake of “The Lion King,” it’s virtually a beat-by-beat remake of the original, but without the original’s energy and movement.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 8, 2022

Like the titular puppet at its center, Pinocchio lingers in an existential purgatory.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 8, 2022

A wooden live-action remake.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/10 | Sep 8, 2022

Though not without charm, and some splendid CGI, this scattershot grab-bag of good intentions results in a bit of an emotional flatline. This puppet will not tug on your heartstrings.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 8, 2022

Every frame of “Pinocchio” is filled with rich and lush detail — at times this almost looks like a 3-D film — and the performances, whether live action or voiced, are universally excellent.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 8, 2022

An entirely unnecessary “live-action” remake of the animated classic, Zemeckis’s film accomplishes a number of cinematic achievements, none of them commendable.

Full Review | Sep 8, 2022

The Blue Fairy may have brought life to Pinocchio, but no one here is delivering anything particularly fresh.

Full Review | Sep 8, 2022

Pinocchio’s nose isn’t all that’s wooden and too long here.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 8, 2022