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By Peter Travers (3,602) for ABC News (186) on 17 Dec 2021

The carny scenes of freaks and geeks are undeniably creepy, but director Guillermo del Toro’s hallucinatory brilliance only comes in flashes…

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By Beardedyoda (60) on 17 Dec 2021

Nightmare Alley is a beautiful looking, well shot, well acted, and detailed film with a lot of interesting concepts…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 16 Dec 2021

The film operates on a peculiar, somewhat languid rhythm, and there are times when the story’s needs take a back seat to the visual detail…

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By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for The New York Times (9,847) on 16 Dec 2021

Del Toro is a world builder, but he can have a tough time bringing his creations to life, which is the case here despite the hard work of his…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 16 Dec 2021

It’s a film noir in much the same way that “Crimson Peak” was a horror movie: Feverishly and often magnificently overwrought, it treats…

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By Johnny Oleksinski (478) for New York Post (6,650) on 16 Dec 2021

The last time Guillermo del Toro directed a movie, 2017’s The Shape of Water, he won the Best Picture Oscar…

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By Guy Lodge (731) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 16 Dec 2021

You can always count on del Toro to put the “grand” in Grand Guignol…

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By Kim Hughes (164) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 16 Dec 2021

Visually opulent as only a Guillermo del Toro movie can be with gorgeously detailed, period-perfect costumes and interiors and a marquee cast,…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 16 Dec 2021

Nightmare Alley is, in its entirety, a beautifully visualized period piece that holds our attention and evokes plenty of horror, to be sure,…

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By Dom Sinacola (87) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 16 Dec 2021

The context, however much of it there is, affects little, and the whole film begins to resemble a fetish object more than an adaptation. In a bad way…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 15 Dec 2021

The darkness isn’t skin-deep; it permeates the material. Nightmare Alley may not be the feel-good film of 2021 but it leaves a lasting impression…

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By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 15 Dec 2021

All said, Nightmare Alley is something to be admired, rather than treasured. It’s big, classic moviemaking with a moral in the end…

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By Lindsey Bahr (430) for The Associated Press (882) on 15 Dec 2021

The themes are obvious and a bit old fashioned and the trajectory is too…

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By Mark Feeney (434) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 15 Dec 2021

Nightmare Alley doesn’t lack for action. It’s just that the action feels mechanical, a going through the motions…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 14 Dec 2021

Filled with juicy performances and unforgettable visuals, Nightmare Alley is one of the best films of the year…

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By Moira Macdonald (1,892) for The Seattle Times (964) on 14 Dec 2021

Cooper, carrying the movie from start to finish, has a final, devastating close-up that’ll haunt you for quite a while…

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By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 14 Dec 2021

Like each of del Toro’s nastier pictures, Nightmare Alley closes in on you with a hellish elegance…

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By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 14 Dec 2021

It’s a noir tale for contemporary audiences who have developed an appetite for sensation from comic book movies, not literature…

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By Brian Truitt (541) for USA Today (4,117) on 14 Dec 2021

Even though there are a bunch of interesting personalities (like Ron Perlman’s strongman Bruno), Nightmare Alley lacks the human connections…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 14 Dec 2021

Though it never runs out of gas or even shows signs of sluggishness, del Toro’s “Nightmare Alley” runs out of importance about a half…

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