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- Allen Almachar @ The MacGuffin
- Excerpt: [Guillermo] del Toro is a director not interested in the constraints of the real world as he is in the possibilities of the imagination.
- Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- David “DC” Bolling @ DC’s Take
- Excerpt: Like always, Bradley Cooper gives another top-notch performance in his career as this man who gains wealth and power once it becomes this surprisingly charming and manipulating mentalist. His character’s darkness goes about the way as expected, but the curiosity of how his downfall will play out kept everything about him interesting the whole time.
- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Brussat @ Spirituality & Practice
- Excerpt: An eerie movie about carny life and a huckster that invites us into the spiritual practice of shadow.
- Samuel Castro @ El Colombiano [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Nadie logra escapar al dolor en el mundo que dibuja Guillermo del Toro en “El callejón de las almas perdidas”. Todos tienen pasados dolorosos, cuentas pendientes y humillaciones por las que buscarán venganza.
- Andrea Chase @ KillerMovieReviews.com
- Excerpt: A sumptuous morality tale with Old Testament justice and a vocabulary, both and aural, that is as intrinsic to the storytelling as any plot point or line of dialogue.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: the real star is its production design…while Blanchett simmers and purrs as this film’s femme fatale, one wonders if del Toro followed Werner Herzog’s “Heart of Glass” playbook and hypnotized the rest of his cast. The film is strangely enervated
- James Jay Edwards @ The Big Smoke America
- Sarah Gopaul @ Digital Journal
- Excerpt: Sometimes the ending makes the movie and this one does not disappoint, delivering an eloquent and hauntingly fitting conclusion to a story that seeks satisfaction, not redemption.
- [New] | Mark Leeper @ Mark leeper’s Reviews
- Excerpt: NIGHTMARE ALLEY is described by its makers as a new adaptation of the book by William Lindsay Gresham, not a remake of the 1947 classic film noir version, and it is stunning.
- James Luxford @ City AM
- Sarah Marrs @ LaineyGossip.com
- Excerpt: Nightmare Alley is an unusually bleak tale from Guillermo Del Toro.
- Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: Guillermo del Toro follows up his Oscar-winning The Shape of Water with a picture that, for my money, is even better. Two-and-a-half hours fly right by as you go on a wild ride with a man you’ll simultaneously despise and be fascinated by.
- Jared Mobarak @ JaredMobarak.com
- Excerpt: Everything is here [from the original film] with some subtle differences in the handling of characters. [But] despite upgrades, [it’s] tough not to feel like the added time is bloat.
- Matt Oakes @
- Excerpt: A B-movie carny noir shot with the handsome care of a prestige picture, ‘Nightmare Alley’ is a gloomy product firmly in Del Toro’s wheelhouse, and the Oscar-winning director knows just how to handle such illicit, gloomy drama. Winding and palpably chilly, the film leads to an undeniable knock-out ending that’s sure to leave one shaken.
- Joao Pinto @ Portal Cinema [Portuguese]
- Diego Salgado @ SoFilm [Spanish]
- Josh Taylor @ The Forgetful Film Critic
- Excerpt: Nightmare Alley is Guillermo del Toro’s florid homage to film noir, but it’s much more than that. The director made the genre his own, embellishing it with horror-tinged suspense and a comeuppance of an ending that will haunt me for years to come.
- Andrew Wyatt @ The Lens
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