Synopsis
Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
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Cast
- Robert PattinsonThomas Howard
- Willem DafoeThomas Wake
- Valeriia KaramanMermaid
- Logan HawkesEphraim Winslow
- Kyla NicolleWoman on the Rocks
- Shaun ClarkeDeparting Wickie
- Pierre RichardDeparting Assistant Wickie
- Preston HudsonTender Mate
- Jeff CrutsTender Mate
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CineVue
Eggers has created a film of disturbing horror, absurdist comedy and probing psychodrama which defies the generic boundaries as it breaks through them. The Lighthouse is a saltwater gothic masterpiece. - 100
The Guardian
Very few films can make you scared and excited at the same time. Just like the lighthouse beam, this is dazzling and dangerous. - 100
The Playlist
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 balances out his ambivalent storytelling, while still ramping through ever-escalating climaxes, can’t be overstated. - 91
The Film Stage
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. - 91
IndieWire
It’s a stunning showcase for Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe to unleash their wildest extremes, by positioning them at the center of a two-hander about a descent into madness in the middle of nowhere. It’s the best movie about bad roommates ever made. - 90
Screen Daily
The Lighthouse provides a marvellous chamber-drama platform for two actors, Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe, who seize the opportunity with gusto. - 90
Variety
The movie, building on “The Witch,” proves that Robert Eggers possesses something more than impeccable genre skill. He has the ability to lock you into the fever of what’s happening onscreen. - 90
Vox
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 don’t add up to any one thing but do leave you feeling both elated and creeped out.