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As thought-provoking as it is visually compelling, The Witch delivers a deeply unsettling exercise in slow-building horror that suggests great things for debuting writer-director Robert Eggers.
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See it with someone you enjoy arguing with. October 4, 2017 | Full Review…
See it with someone you enjoy arguing with.
M. Faust
As a curio, The Witch has its own fascination; at least until the over-explicit finale shatters much of the mood that has been so carefully built up. March 16, 2016 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
As a curio, The Witch has its own fascination; at least until the over-explicit finale shatters much of the mood that has been so carefully built up.
Jake Wilson
Aware that gender, as much as faith, remains a burning issue, Eggers makes our hearts swell and our brains sweat. March 14, 2016 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Aware that gender, as much as faith, remains a burning issue, Eggers makes our hearts swell and our brains sweat.
Charlotte O'Sullivan
Like any outstanding horror film, its true impact only reveals itself once the credits have rolled and it stays buried under your skin, breaking through every now and then to remind you of its insidious power. March 10, 2016 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Like any outstanding horror film, its true impact only reveals itself once the credits have rolled and it stays buried under your skin, breaking through every now and then to remind you of its insidious power.
Benjamin Lee
The best moments are early on. March 10, 2016 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
The best moments are early on.
Kevin Maher
Its hypnotic spell lingers. March 7, 2016 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Its hypnotic spell lingers.
Sophie Monks Kaufman
The Witch slowly cranks up a feeling of mounting dread. It feels transgressive, forbidden. Robert Eggers and his talented cast and crew have made something special. February 13, 2020 | Full Review…
The Witch slowly cranks up a feeling of mounting dread. It feels transgressive, forbidden. Robert Eggers and his talented cast and crew have made something special.
Tim Brennan
Seems like it was created out of the Platonic ideal of a Hammer-period horror film, with all of the creep and none of the camp. January 13, 2020 | Full Review…
Seems like it was created out of the Platonic ideal of a Hammer-period horror film, with all of the creep and none of the camp.
Chris McCoy
An odd mixture of fanatical religious paranoia and actual supernatural horror, which creates a fascinating, successful hybrid. July 23, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
An odd mixture of fanatical religious paranoia and actual supernatural horror, which creates a fascinating, successful hybrid.
Nicholas Bell
The Witch aims for an engrossing, period appropriate realism that only deepens the psychological burden on the audience. July 17, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
The Witch aims for an engrossing, period appropriate realism that only deepens the psychological burden on the audience.
Dominic Griffin
The biggest magic The Witch has to offer is making 93 minutes feel like the rest of your natural life. July 9, 2019 | Rating: F | Full Review…
The biggest magic The Witch has to offer is making 93 minutes feel like the rest of your natural life.
Ryan Syrek
Its masterful blending of the sacred and the blasphemous makes it not just a great horror film, but perhaps the first true horror masterpiece of the new century. June 5, 2019 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
Its masterful blending of the sacred and the blasphemous makes it not just a great horror film, but perhaps the first true horror masterpiece of the new century.
Matthew Lucas
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