Review of Nightmare Alley (2021) by Phil De Semlyen for Time Out — 21 Dec 2021
What happens when you haul all the trappings of a genre rooted in post-war cynicism and lay them out raw for modern-day moviegoers? You end up with something like Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley, a heady, fleeting pleasure that prioritises craft over moral complexity, with themes of class friction and fraudulent spirituality that would once have landed like haymakers packing much less punch today.
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This review of Nightmare Alley (2021) was written by Phil De Semlyen and published by Time Out on 21 Dec 2021.
Nightmare Alley has generally received positive reviews.
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