wonderstruck

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Every “Pinocchio” is some wonderstruck filmmaker’s hope that their carved, sculpted and painted version of Italian author Carlo Collodi’s 140-year-old story about a manufactured boy will be accepted as a real movie someday.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 8, 2022

The original story is more wonderstruck than funny, but the film’s humor is very rough and lively.

From The Verge • May 31, 2018

A few moments remain cringeworthy, but at many other points, Reed seems genuinely stirred by Havel and wonderstruck by the role his songs had played in such a monumental historical moment.

From The Guardian • Oct. 1, 2017

All this might still have gone terribly wrong; Fuller’s archness isn’t an obvious match for Gaiman’s wonderstruck fantasy.

From Slate • Apr. 28, 2017

What was more, the wheeled people seemed to be just as wonderstruck by her.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman