‘Nightmare Alley’ review: Bradley Cooper’s best performance ever

Meet cute! Jessica Chastain’s grandmother Marilyn Herst did not hold back when she got the opportunity to make a lasting first impression on Bradley Cooper.

Guillermo del Toro has been directing movies since 1986 with his first short film Doña Lupe. Many were familiar with his horror films in the 1990s but it wasn’t until 2006 Pan’s Labyrinth that made him a household name. 

Lady Gaga is using her star power to help out a friend.The singer and actress, who starred alongside Bradley Cooper in A Star is Born, took to Twitter on Monday to encourage fans to see her friend‘s latest film, urging her followers to head to the theater and see Nightmare Alley, a psychological thriller that boasts a star-studded cast.“Nightmare Alley is an amazing film with an amazing cast, congratulations to @RealGDT,” Lady Gaga tweeted.

Since his 1993 debut “Cronos,” it’s always been explicit that Guillermo del Toro is a genre filmmaker at heart. Over the years, the director has tackled several different kinds of horror films.

When Leonardo DiCaprio was trying to figure out what to do after “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” reports started coming up about some of the biggest A-list filmmakers working today trying to nab him for roles. One of those names was Paul Thomas Anderson, who was developing the film that would go on to be known as “Licorice Pizza.” The rumor went that DiCaprio passed on the film and his role eventually went to Bradley Cooper.

Lady Gaga can’t recommend Bradley Cooper‘s new movie enough.

NEW YORK -- With a touch of Barbara Stanwyck, a sumptuous Art Deco office and a deadly shade of crimson lipstick, Cate Blanchett plays a femme fatale in Guillermo del Toro’s “Nightmare Alley” with cunning embrace and subversion of the film noir archetype.If “Nightmare Alley” is del Toro’s lushly composed love letter to noir, the movie’s pulpy heart is in Blanchett’s conniving psychiatrist Lilith Ritter.

latest film — about a small-time carnival worker (Bradley Cooper) who grifts his way into high society by claiming to read minds and commune with the dead — has all the trappings of the genre: drunk degenerates and femme fatales; dimly lit streets and stalking shadows; greed, lust, murder, hubris and a creeping existential dread.

After the release of “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” Leonardo DiCaprio was reportedly offered quite a few films. Obviously.

Guillermo Del Toro is not as prolific as some of his peers when it comes to feature films, but it’s still somewhat surprising it’s taken this long for him to work with Cate Blanchett. They both had their breakthrough moments in the mid-to-late-1990s and Blanchett could have easily stepped into the worlds of any “Hellboy” movie, “The Shape of Water,” or “Crimson Peak” without a second glance.

“Nightmare Alley,” Guillermo del Toro’s new adaptation of William Lindsay Gresham’s 1946 novel of the same name (made once before in 1947 by British filmmaker Edmund Goulding) wasn’t exactly the smoothest.

Bradley Cooper says there was a scene in that seemed simple (keyword: seemed) but truly it was a tall order for someone of Lady Gaga's stature to pull off so exquisitely. And it was in that seemingly simplest moment that the 46-year-old actor says his mind was blown away by the triple-threat star.The star and director shared the intimate detail while chatting with director Ridley Scott in 's "Directors on Directors" series.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterIn Netflix’s upcoming assassin thriller “The Killers,” director David Fincher does what David Fincher does best — which is to say the filmmaker delves deep into the mind of the deeply disturbed.The film, starring Michael Fassbender as a cold-blooded hitman who suddenly develops a conscience, is the kind of tense, edge-of-your-seat character study that harkens back to some of the director’s previous masterworks like “Se7en,” “Fight Club,” “Zodiac” and

Lady Gaga says she «absolutely» consulted with Bradley Cooper before taking on the role of Italian socialite Patrizia Reggiani in — and it had everything to do with their collaboration in .The 35-year-old actress-singer revealed on 's   podcast that seeking out 46-year-old Cooper's advice was paramount, largely due to the fact that he «empowered» her for the role of Ally Maine in the 2018 film that ultimately landed her an Oscar for Best Original Song.«The way that he empowered me to take helm

Lady Gaga is getting some career advice from Bradley Cooper.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticHumans are stupid and can’t be expected to agree on anything, even if their existence depends on it.

Bradley Cooper and Irina Shayk have been at the center of reconciliation speculation, but it appears their status is simply platonic co-parents to daughter Lea, 4. The actor, 46, and model, 35, split in 2019 after four years of dating, but have been spotted arm-in-arm around New York, leading some to believe they’ve gotten back together; however, a source has revealed exclusively to HollywoodLife that the two aren’t an item.

“If you displease the right people, the world closes in on you very, very fast,” Dr. Lilith Ritter (Cate Blanchett) cautions her new partner in crime, mentalist Stan Carlisle (Bradley Cooper).

As he geared up for the release of his latest film, Nightmare Alley, Bradley Cooper, 46, was happy to have his family along for the ride. “It’s very special,” Bradley told Entertainment Tonight of having his ex, Irina Shayk, 35, in attendance for the film’s release.