Nightmare Alley

2021
2h 30m
Rating: 15

Director: Guillermo del Toro
Writers: Guillermo del Toro, Kim Morgan, William Lindsay Gresham
Stars: Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette

Spanish auteur Guillermo del Toro’s follow-up to his Oscar-winning Sound of Water is another triumph of cinematic design and rightly received both Oscar and BAFTA nominations for production design, costume design and cinematography. Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette and Willem Dafoe star in this noir-ish tale of a grifter working his way up from low-ranking carnival worker to lauded psychic medium matches wits with a psychiatrist bent on exposing him. Full of lush costume and moody art deco interiors.