<PERSON> Pinocchio
The 2022 Oscar winner for best animated feature makes the leap from Netflix to 4K via the Criterion Collection, and it’s a vivacious mating of source material and interpreter, playing like a descendant of both the Disney classic and <PERSON> previous work (the war-era darkness of Pan’s Labyrinth and the carny milieu of Nightmare Alley, for starters). He sets his story in fascist Italy before and during WWII, and while that interpretation may be a bit of a stretch, it’s so refreshing to see a new spin on this well-worn tale that the speed-bumps are forgivable. (The less said about those songs, though, the better). More lovingly-rendered stop motion animation in 4K, please and thank you! 594