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Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Nightmare Alley’ Doesn’t Take Us Deep Enough Into Its Hero’s Dark Psyche

Talk about holiday counterprogramming! Currently in theaters, the new film from Guillermo del Toro (Oscar winner for The Shape of Water) is a star-studded slice of dark, gritty noir. Del Toro has said Nightmare Alley is based on William Lindsay Gresham’s 1946 novel about carny life, rather than on its classic 1947 film adaptation starring […]

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