Nightmare Alley
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Oscar Nominations: 4
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William Lindsay Gresham’s pulpy 1946 novel and the shockingly dark studio picture it inspired give Del Toro, hot off his Oscar win for The Shape of Water, a chance to make film noir, resulting in visually stunning sinister moral fable about the cruel predictability of human nature and the way entire systems are engineered to exploit it, from carnies and con men to shrinks and Sunday preachers.
