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By Sam C. Mac (54) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 22 May 2019

Robert Eggers loosens the noose of veracity that choked his meticulously researched but painfully self-serious debut just enough to allow for…

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By Alissa Wilkinson (499) for Vox (725) on 21 May 2019

There’s horror and gaslighting and high-on-helium-style comedy and bits of Freud scattered about; in essence, it’s a pile of things that…

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By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 21 May 2019

The Lighthouse is more satisfying when viewed through the prism of its pitch-black humor; it’s fine as a thriller, borderline brilliant as…

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By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 21 May 2019

There needn’t be some deeper theme or intent behind a movie like this, but The Lighthouse is an awfully trying experience to end with such…

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By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 20 May 2019

If the immediate, textural pleasures of the film are such that you can almost miss the deftness of its construction, the skill with which Eggers…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for The Guardian (2,969) on 20 May 2019

Very few films can make you scared and excited at the same time. Just like the lighthouse beam, this is dazzling and dangerous…

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By John Bleasdale (289) for CineVue (2,163) on 20 May 2019

Eggers has created a film of disturbing horror, absurdist comedy and probing psychodrama which defies the generic boundaries as it breaks through…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for IndieWire (3,631) on 20 May 2019

It’s a stunning showcase for Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe to unleash their wildest extremes, by positioning them at the center of a…

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By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 20 May 2019

Much like The Witch, there is something quite mesmerizing about the meticulousness in the period detail here and how Eggers so seems to revel in it…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 20 May 2019

The movie, building on “The Witch,” proves that Robert Eggers possesses something more than impeccable genre skill…

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By Lee Marshall (157) for Screen International (2,241) on 20 May 2019

The Lighthouse provides a marvellous chamber-drama platform for two actors, Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe, who seize the opportunity with gusto…

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By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 20 May 2019

The movie delivers its share of shudders, along with fabulous arias of anger, wrath and disgust from both actors as the power dynamic bounces…

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