Pinocchio's reviews
Media reviews
Screen Daily
A film which doesn't sugar-coat the ache of bereavement, the futility of war or the manifold failures of mankind, but which manages to balance the darkness with sparks of hope, humour and humanity.
The Hollywood Reporter
I feel tempted to say there's a leaner, stronger film inside this that could have been coaxed out, but in the light of the film's message about accepting people as they are, maybe we shouldn?t be shaming this film either. It is what it is, and that?s perfectly imperfect.
Slashfilm
Overall, I wouldn't say Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio is a "dark" movie so much as it is a challenging one, refreshingly so, with knotty, complex questions and real peril.
The Wrap
It?s intense, creepy, often harrowing stuff, so you can see why del Toro has said in interviews that his Pinocchio isn't a children's film. But that doesn't mean that brave children, and brave adults, won?t adore it.
Variety
Unfolding over a faintly indulgent but never dull two hours, this is a rare children's entertainment that isn't afraid to perplex kids as much as it enchants them, down to a coda that prompts a certain level of junior existential contemplation (not to mention a mournful tear or two).