Guillermo del Toro’s Dark Take on Pinocchio Is Anything But Wooden

For those of you who, like me, have watched the glut of wistful-sweet Pixar movies and rousing princess musicals released in recent years and wondered where all the genuinely strange, dark children’s movies—like there used to be, we swear!—have gone, Guillermo del Toro’s new film comes as a welcome response. His version of Pinocchio (on Netflix December 9) is pointy and sad and grim, befitting of his past oeuvre and, one hopes, reminding parents that their kids can handle—and may even need—the creepier, more complicated stuff to balance out the sugar. Del Toro’s stop-motion animated film is based on the… Read Full Article