Brilliant acting but unless you enjoy alternative cinema this is not a film that you are going to enjoy. It is a slow slog.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 29, 2024

As the film unfolded, I felt like I was slowly going insane alongside the characters. My anxiety and confusion galvanised into the most immersive of experiences.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 14, 2024

Shot on black and white 35mm film, Eggers’ feature never loses its mysterious yet vibrant atmosphere.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 14, 2024

Working in harmony, Mark Korven’s musical horror and Damien Volpe’s sound design consistently bubble under the surface, hinting at unsettling and unfolding motifs.

| Sep 20, 2023

Filmed in beautiful black-and-white with a claustrophobic aspect ratio, Robert Eggers delivers a story about loneliness and isolation that takes the weirdest, craziest route. I don't have a single complaint, and I love it more the more I think about it.

| Original Score: A+ | Jul 24, 2023

As a dark fable, The Lighthouse resonates on the level of collective memory and myth, providing a thoroughly engrossing, veritable masterpiece of performance, period detail and visual inventiveness.

| Jul 20, 2023

...you can almost taste the sea-salt and smell the stench of booze in the air. Robert Eggers’ “The Lighthouse” is a sea yarn full of sailor superstitions; it could be the most haunting film about sea-lore ever made. Save it for a cold stormy night.

| Jun 20, 2023

a rich and strange sea yarn in monochrome that overflows with Beckettian absurdity, as these men, perhaps both liars (literal gaslighters), look, while waiting for ‘relief’, into the abyss of both their elemental isolation & their infernal companionship.

| Jun 19, 2023

When you confine two people in a small space, there's not a lot of room for secrets, lust, fights, hallucinations, kinship or farts...over time, such confinement can make any sane man question reality...

| Mar 31, 2023

It's a film that lingers in the corner of your mind as you find yourself wondering how the hell they shot certain parts, replaying monologues and drunken arguments in your head, resurfacing shots that perfectly pair the repulsive and beautiful.

| Mar 31, 2023

A comedy as black as the ocean floor, The Lighthouse will draw audiences in with its siren’s song and leave them breathless and broken against the rocks with images that will stay with you like the ships trapped in Davy Jones’s locker.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 11, 2022

Eggers injects some unexpected levity into this seafaring genre tale, but it's Dafoe and Pattinson who carry the show.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 29, 2022

I worked really hard to like this movie, overlooking my frustrations and pushing forward for something more than the beautiful B&W visuals and intensely committed performances. But I never found it...

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 23, 2022

…The Lighthouse is a cheeky provocation, cleverly made and making great use of two deservedly popular actors…

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 9, 2022

The images are between beautiful and overwhelming, and the performances, the counterpoints between Dafoe and Pattinson, whether or not they are drunk, supreme. [Full review in Spanish]

| May 24, 2022

Eggers has watched with interest the first films of Guy Maddin and surely also something by the Quay Brothers. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | May 23, 2022

A stone-cold masterpiece.

| Original Score: FIVE STARS | Mar 15, 2022

Robert Eggers has established himself as cinema's premier researcher, capable of evoking a historical period with centuries-old vernaculars, period-accurate tactile details, and a visual schema rooted in the past.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 23, 2022

This psychological horror drama is jammed with nightmarish imagery and tour de force acting.

| Original Score: A- | Feb 13, 2022

Episode 52: Jojo Rabbit / The Lighthouse / Parasite

| Original Score: 80/100 | Dec 1, 2021