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Dec 17, 2021 · His “Nightmare Alley” is a movie of psychological tunnels and downward spirals. In entering them, Stan risks getting lost and never coming out the other side. Circular symbolism seems most explicit in the spins of an imposing Ferris wheel. Still more prominent in the aesthetic of Tamara Deverell ’s impeccable production design, heavy on ...
Dec 17, 2021 · When charismatic but down-on-his-luck Stanton Carlisle (Bradley Cooper) endears himself to clairvoyant Zeena (Toni Collette) and her has-been mentalist husband Pete (David Strathairn) at a ...
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- Guillermo Del Toro
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- Bradley Cooper
Dec 2, 2021 · Editor: Camera McLaughlin. Music: Nathan Johnson. With: Bradley Cooper, Rooney Mara, Cate Blanchett, Ron Perlman, Toni Collette, Mary Steenburgen, Willem Dafoe, David Strathairn, Richard Jenkins ...
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Dec 15, 2021 · In theory, Lilith should be a sharp foil for Stan. But she isn’t a character, she is a cineaste’s nostalgic plaything, and like too much of this movie she is less bathed in del Toro’s love ...
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- Manohla Dargis
Dec 6, 2021 · Nightmare Alley is marginally better but still a curious misfire, overlong and overstretched, working only in all-too-brief bursts, a stumble after the giddy heights of The Shape of Water.
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- Benjamin Lee
Playing against type with Nightmare Alley, ... Dec 7, 2021 Full Review Helen Bower Detroit Free Press All together the film has a great deal of accumulative impact. It is a thoroughly unpleasant ...
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- Crime, Drama
If the original Nightmare Alley is a film about Stan’s transformation, del Toro’s 2021 version is more about revelation, the layers of falsehood in Stan and his world being stripped away until ...