5. Nightmare Alley (2021)
Nightmare Alley is Guillermo del Toro at the top of his craft. He sets a unique story inside the world of carnivals and through his disturbed, off-kilter eye, populates the screen with the biggest names in the business, The result is a tense, dense film about greed, desire, and guilt set against the weirdest and most fascinating of backdrops. But it’s a tad too easy to pick out the big moments even if you don’t know the source material, which is the one thing holding it back.
