Nightmare Alley

Part carny nightmare and part noir nihilism, the colors and designs of this jump off the screen. It’s beautiful. Every frame is a perfect composition. But the story is a drag. There’s very few heroes and no redemption of any kind. That’s the way the noirs go, I suppose. This will get lost in film history, I think. There’s nothing uplifting at all, unlike The Shape of Water, despite the explosion of technique.