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Film: Nightmare Alley 

About 20 minutes too long -- one of the general perks of the noir genre is storytelling efficiency -- which Del Toro inexplicably veers from. Some characterization cheated for plot turns in a few moments that I didn't totally buy. Maybe I would've understood better on a bigger screen? Either I completely foresaw the ending from the moment Nightmare Alley was introduced or I've seen the original film and I for the life of me, cannot remember. All said, I quite enjoyed the movie. One of the better 2021 releases. Given the pandemic, this wasn't the worst of all possible years for movies...