Nightmare Alley

2021

Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 68% · 357 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 68% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.0/10 10 180835 180.8K

oscar nominated secret infidelity based on novel or book love triangle tarot cards

Plot summary

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.

Director

Guillermo del Toro Photo
Guillermo del Toro

Top cast

Cate Blanchett Photo
Cate Blanchett as Dr. Lilith Ritter
Willem Dafoe Photo
Willem Dafoe as Clem Hoatley
Bradley Cooper Photo
Bradley Cooper as Stanton Carlisle
Ron Perlman Photo
Ron Perlman as Bruno
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by joel-87474 6 / 10

Unusually weak for del Toro; doesn't live up to source material

They should've stuck with the leaner, smarter ending in the novel, because boy was I sick of Bradley Cooper's overacting by then. Ironically, he's playing a character who's repeatedly told not to buy into his own hype, when he needs that lesson more than Stanton Carlisle ever did.Everyone else is competent at least. I thought at first that Rooney Mara was miscast, but she's playing a very different Molly Cahill from the novel, and does so effectively. Most of the cast are too old for their roles, but I can overlook that. It necessarily deviates from the novel for length, complexity and the practicalities of filmmaking, but also some arbitrary changes that are never improvements.What's missing is the grandeur and spectacle that keep even del Toro's lesser films from being dull. There are good performances, good visuals, but nothing achieves greatness.
Reviewed by lee_eisenberg 8 / 10

Guillermo del Toro looks at hubris

Over the past thirty years, Guillermo del Toro has directed some of the most haunting movies: "Cronos", "Mimic", "The Devil's Backbone", "Pan's Labyrinth" and "The Shape of Water". He now adds "Nightmare Alley", a disturbing look at a man's overconfidence.Bradley Cooper plays a man who joins a traveling carnival but begins letting his belief in his own abilities get the better of him, especially after he starts associating with a morally ambiguous psychologist. Cate Blanchett's performance as the psychologist is what makes the movie, in my opinion. That and the production design create one of the most mind-blowing things that you'll ever see; it certainly earned its Academy Award nomination for production design.I don't know if I would call this the year's best movie, but it's one of the most impressive. Along with Cooper and Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Toni Collette, Willem Dafoe, David Strathairn, Mary Steenburgen, Ron Perlman, Richard Jenkins and a host of other people put on splendid performances. You should definitely check this movie out.
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