Nightmare Alley (2021)
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Critic Consensus: While it may not hit quite as hard as the original, Guillermo del Toro's Nightmare Alley is a modern noir thriller with a pleasantly pulpy spin.
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The one to see is the one from 1947.
It's hard to think of a noir story that would be better suited to del Toro as a director -- the arch-fabulist who fears men more than he does monsters.
From its bruised colour palette to its spiralling descent into madness and degradation, this is deliciously damnable fare, looking back through the prism of Del Toro's adventurous oeuvre to the existential angst of his vampiric feature debut, Cronos.
The journey taken by del Toro may be convoluted. Where he ends up, though, is a bad dream come true.
An oddly literal melodrama about bad people doing very bad things, very slowly.
It's impossible to tell whether del Toro is laughing up his sleeve or crossing his fingers that Blanchett's big moments will lead to another Oscar.
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