Review: ‘Nightmare Alley’ Is Visually Stunning, but Emotionally Unengaging

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Guillermo del Toro’s latest film immerses us into the shady world of a late 1930s traveling carnival.

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The neo-noir thriller Nightmare Alley begins and ends in a world where madmen locked in cages eat live chickens in front of an audience and dead fetuses soaked in wood alcohol are displayed in glass jars.

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It’s a richly designed, unsettling world in which the monsters are not del Toro’s normal fantastical creatures, but the men themselves.

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Del Toro and Kim Morgan’s screenplay is based on the 1946 novel of the same name by William Lindsay Gresham.

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A year after the book was released, Edmund Goulding directed a popular noir film adaptation starring Tyrone Power.

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Now, del Toro is back with another adaptation of the story of Stan Carlisle.

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