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‘The Lighthouse’ is a spellbinding tour-de-force for Defoe, Pattinson

Jacob Neisewander | Tuesday, February 4, 2020

Hark! “The Lighthouse” is the second feature film from up-and-coming horror director Robert Eggers. Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe star as two lighthouse keepers slowly descending into madness after being stranded at their station. While the technical aspects of “The Lighthouse” alone are certainty worth the price of admission, it’s Pattinson and Dafoe’s performances that

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Toil and Trouble: A conversation with Robert Eggers, Director of ‘The Witch’

Nick Laureano | Thursday, March 3, 2016

I’m generally skeptical of movie review aggregators like Rotten Tomatoes — quantitative measures like the algorithms applied by Rotten Tomatoes rob our appreciation and understanding of the movies. There are moments, however, when sites like Rotten Tomatoes are essential to understanding a movie. The release of Robert Eggers’ new horror movie, “The Witch,” ushered in one