Nosferatu

It gives the Nosferatu tale back some of the power that it has lost over countless representations. Here, you’re left in Dracula’s thrall, his craggy fingers around your throat.

[Lily-Rose Depp's] performance is really something else.

Eggers is trying to do something different than the other movies, but in a sense he's playing into the same overwrought scariness. The film could use a lot more lightness, if you will.

The film is fine — an artisanal horror made with care and invention. But... what sticks is the Gothic high style: queasy lamplight, small coffins, imperious doctors. All good things in context — but side plates in need of a dripping, rare main course. 

This is much more of a romp than I had expected.

...most entrancing early on during its ominous, dread-soaked set pieces.

Robert Eggers earns a much-deserved crown of greatness for his brilliantly directed and superbly acted film. It sets a new standard for the genre. This visual and kinetic haunted masterpiece of the moviegoing year is the greatest horror movie I’ve seen.

Lush, haunting, bloody, with gorgeous cinematography, and a fabulous moustache!

It’s unlikely to linger as Eggers’ best, but it is thrilling in its own inevitability.

Eggers conducts his "Symphony of Horror" with such dead seriousness it threatens to veer into camp. How much you buy into it depends on your embrace of his aesthetic.

And rats. Lots of rats.