grimmer

Nightmare Alley

Fantastic performances, beautiful cinematography and clever storytelling make for an enjoyable watch. It’s quite long and does go on at points, some scenes could’ve easily been cut, but overall it was very enjoyable, not masterpiece but a fun time.

that one nerd 🤓☝️

Nightmare Alley

To be honest, this film has an interesting story. It really shows how greed slowly consumes people and turns them into fools. The plot was insanely good because the main character eventually became something his past self would never have expected.

breakfastcowl

Nightmare Alley

Ha, what do you know, another fucking solid noir! Del Toro leaning all the way into it, sliding slyly past the "Icarus" tone of the original and torpedoing straight for some haunted tar pit of the damned. (Yours for a mere $0.25!) I like the way he'll give you yer damn archetypes, but then nibble at them down to a bloody mess, genre standees mingling with heavy-hearted human bodies. For my money, at least, it improves on the already excellent original in every way with greater character complexities, histories, consequences, and dark carny atmosphere out the wazoo.

joaomarco2003

Nightmare Alley

Pouquíssimas vezes pude ver um longa existir somente para sustentar um dispositivo referencial engessado em sua capacidade de compor uma imagem e que nunca vai além de uma sequência enjoativa de filtros do Instagram mal utilizados por um cineasta com a legitima capacidade de fazer superior. Nightmare Alley é a sentença defintiva de que, excetuando A Forma da Água, todas as vezes em que o fascínio do Guilhermo Del Toro pela Hollywood clássica lhe sobe a mente, o cineasta se revela inapto em gerenciar sua homenagem e configura seu trabalho em uma orquestração artificial e desestimulante - tudo em cena possui uma textura asséptica, sem espírito, encanto ou paixão; são imagens que nascem pensadas a partir dessa lógica saudosista esvaziada.