4.5 • 10.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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0:00.0 | Nightmare Alley is a stylish neo-noir that's as seedy as its title sounds. |
0:08.2 | Ravvy Cooper plays Stan, an ambitious 1940s ricketer who joins a traveling carnival and |
0:12.9 | learns to develop his own mentalist act. |
0:15.8 | An encounter with a mysterious psychologist played by a cape lunchette leads to a faithful |
0:20.2 | and destructive turn of events. |
0:22.4 | The movie is directed by Guillermo del Toro and inspired by the book in 1947 movie adaptation |
0:27.7 | of the same name. |
0:29.3 | In the filmmaker's typical fashion, the period-peace visuals are striking and the cast is robust, |
0:34.2 | including Tony Collette, David Trutheran, and Bruny Mara. |
0:37.9 | But does it work? |
0:39.4 | I'm Aisha Harris and today we're talking about Nightmare Alley on Pop Culture Happy Hour |
0:43.4 | from NPR. |
0:48.8 | Joining me today is writer Mariah Gates. |
0:51.0 | Hello and welcome back to the show Mariah. |
0:52.9 | Hi, thanks for having me. |
0:54.4 | And also with us is Odie Henderson. |
0:56.4 | Odie is a film critic at RogerEbert.com. |
0:59.2 | It's great to have you back as well Odie. |
1:01.2 | Thanks, great to be back. |
1:02.5 | Yes. |
1:04.0 | And you both, I mean, part of the reason we wanted to have you on is because you both |
1:07.8 | are big film more fans, so I'm very excited to get into this with you. |
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