'Nightmare Alley' review: Guillermo Del Toro messes with our heads


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Bradley Cooper and Cate Blanchett are up to no good in 'Nightmare Alley'. – Photos: Handout

"Oh, you're trouble, aren't you, Pop?" a carnie played by Toni Collette asks Stanton (a cagey Bradley Cooper) in Nightmare Alley. Yep, he is.

In the opening scene, we see Stanton burn down a house but he doesn't speak for the first 10 minutes of the movie, during which he falls in with a carnival and begins to study its practitioners. Soon, he is romancing a colleague (Rooney Mara) and working on a scheme to convince stooges that he's a mind reader in Guillermo del Toro's remake of the 1947 Tyrone Powell movie of the same name.

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7.5 10

Summary:

Del Toro knows exactly what he's doing and he delights in messing with our heads.

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