the Witch

Anya Taylor-Joy has only been acting in film and television since 2014, yet she’s already amassed a filmography with…

Robert Eggers has established a reputation for making films informed by exacting historical research. In both The…

Director Robert Eggers’ first “New England folktale,” The Witch, became an instant genre classic, bringing literal…

Even in a long line of charismatic characters, Willem Dafoe’s turn as The Lighthouse’s Thomas Wake stands out as a…

Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe have the kind of faces Norma Desmond waxed nostalgic about in Sunset Boulevard.…

Once upon a time, it seemed every studio film came with its own novelization—anyone else read The Good Son’s tie-in…

Apparently worried that its reputation as a home for critically acclaimed oddball film-making was still somehow…

You probably never thought that Pumbaa—master of “Hakuna Matata” and lover of all things buggy—could manifest as…

A24, the little film studio that is kicking an unholy amount of ass these days, has a roster of recent films that…

Robert Eggers’ 2016 horror film The Witch was a slow burn of spookiness, gradually ramping up the unease and the…

Reliably delightful old-school weirdo, meet unexpectedly great new-school weirdo: Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson…

Halloween is only six months away, which means it’s time for anyone who claims to take the holiday seriously to…

When people talk about what a terrible year 2016 has been, they could be referring to any number of things, from…

Even at their most cohesive, movies are still collections of individual moments. And any movie, no matter how bad or…

Whether or not Robert Eggers’ period-set horror film The Witch is truly scary might be up for debate, but it’s hard…

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Jump scares are an effective way to startle the audience, but are they useful in establishing a more terrifying…

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Once upon a time, dear reader, A.V. Club film editor A.A. Dowd and staff critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky were just like…

How has the representation of evil, monsters, and things that go bump in the night changed over the many years of…