Visually stunning and beautifully scored, but at two and a half hours, it’s a bloated and unwieldy beast.
When charismatic but down-on-his-luck Stanton Carlisle (Bradley Cooper) endears himself to clairvoyant Zeena Krumbein (Toni Collette) and her has-been mentalist husband Pete (David Strathai
With his remake of Edward Goulding’s 1947 noir classic, “Nightmare Alley,” del Toro ditches the monsters under the bed entirely, focusing only on the monster within. All of the director’s signature elements - religious parables, rigid moralizing, gestures towards the supernatural - are given the requisite amount of attention.