Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 10, 2007

The recut American version is truly awful, but a good 75 percent of the awfulness is attributable to Miramax, the film's distributor.

| Jan 5, 2007

What can one say about a balding 50-year-old actor playing an innocent boy carved from a log?

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 3, 2003

What remains is a variant of the nincompoop Benigni persona, here a more annoying, though less angry version of the irresponsible Sandlerian manchild, undercut by the voice of the star of Road Trip.

| Jan 3, 2003

I can't say this enough: This movie is about an adult male dressed in pink jammies.

Full Review | Jan 3, 2003

Instead of hiding Pinocchio from critics, Miramax should have hidden it from everyone.

Full Review | Jan 3, 2003

An epic turkey, in a league with this year's Swept Away, that must be seen to be believed.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 3, 2003

While Benigni (who stars and co-wrote) seems to be having a wonderful time, he might be alone in that.

Full Review | Jan 3, 2003

Audiences can be expected to suspend their disbelief only so far -- and that does not include the 5 o'clock shadow on the tall wooden kid as he skips off to school.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 3, 2003

Would Benigni's Italian Pinocchio have been any easier to sit through than this hastily dubbed disaster?

| Original Score: F | Jan 3, 2003

In the spirit of the season, I assign one bright shining star to Roberto Benigni's Pinocchio -- but I guarantee that no wise men will be following after it.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 27, 2002

Visually sumptuous but intellectually stultifying.

Full Review | Dec 27, 2002

Benigni's Pinocchio is extremely straight and mind-numbingly stilted, its episodic pacing keeping the film from developing any storytelling flow.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 27, 2002

The idea of 49-year-old Roberto Benigni playing the wooden boy Pinocchio is scary enough. The reality of the new live-action Pinocchio he directed, cowrote and starred in borders on the grotesque.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 27, 2002

The movie unfolds in a clumsy zone between fantasy and realism, and in the end it's neither here nor there.

| Original Score: D | Dec 27, 2002

As the wooden puppet who yearns to be human, Benigni ... is steadfastly insufferable, from his naughty, nave stage through a transformation to a state of virtue that is steeped in a self-congratulatory martyrdom and nobility.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 26, 2002

A movie so bad that it quickly enters the pantheon of wreckage that includes Battlefield Earth and Showgirls.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 26, 2002

Lethal for kids and an unspeakable insult to adults, this unreleasable fiasco is a torture for all.

Full Review | Dec 19, 2002

The film's stagecrafts are intimate and therefore bolder than the otherwise calculated artifice that defines and overwhelms the film's production design.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 30, 2002

A film substantially lacking in personality, energy, magic and humor.

| Oct 8, 2002