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Guillermo del Toro’s stop-motion film brings the oft-told story to dazzling life

ANIMATION

On all week, on demand, Netflix

** *** Guillermo del Toro's stop-motion masterwork (co-directed by animation veteran Mark Gustafson) offers a typically unique take on the oft-adapted story of the wooden boy who wants to be real.

Set in Italy at a time when Mussolini and fascism are on the rise, the story may shock anyone with Disney's moppet-friendly classic 1940 cartoon in mind if anything, this adaptation owes more to del Toro's Spanish Civil War fable Pan's Labyrinth.