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Disney+’s <em>Pinocchio </em>Is a Zombie

The classic 1940 animation was unforgettable. This CGI-filled remake, not so much.
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Robert Zemeckis has always been a director fascinated by avant-garde technology. His biggest films of the ’80s and ’90s—, , —were all in their use of visual effects and CGI. In the 2000s, he dove into the nascent field of motion capture to produce the animated movies , ,and . But as Zemeckis has tried to stay on the cutting edge, he seems to have grown less interested in some of the building blocks of good.

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