Nightmare Alley

2021 · 151 min · EN · R · 6.9 (3,520 votes)

Dir. Guillermo del Toro · Starring Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, Willem Dafoe, Richard Jenkins, Rooney Mara · Music Nathan Johnson

“Man or beast.”

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An ambitious carnival man with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychologist who is even more dangerous than he is.

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Nightmare Alley unfurls as a cynical, fatalistic slow-burn, drenched in visually opulent neo-noir style. It's a decadent, tense journey into the dark heart of ambition and deception, exploring themes of moral decay and inescapable consequence. A stylishly bleak and alluring experience.

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