Anthony Lane reviews Robert Eggers’s “The Lighthouse,” starring Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson, and Taika Waititi’s “Jojo Rabbit,” featuring Scarlett Johansson.

R • 1 hour 48 min • 2019

The Lighthouse boasts and thrives off of a maritime rap battle between Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattison. Don't miss this one.

Robert Eggers’s Cannes-premiering follow-up to The Witch has two great performances and style to spare, but never quite leaves the shallows.

Robert Pattinson makes another offbeat choice with challenging black-and-white drama.

Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson go slowly stir crazy in the sophomore film from Robert Eggers (‘The Witch’).

You can almost taste the salt on your lips in the new psychological horror from Robert Eggers (‘The Witch’) that will leave even the sturdiest of sea legs shaki

The Lighthouse starts out as a moody, introspectiveexploration of loneliness and interpersonal communication and develops into anexistential horror movie. Although I don’t think the ending quite works, thefilm grows more unsettling as it approaches...

By turns funny, sinister, haunting, historically fascinating and mythical, “The Lighthouse” is one of the best films of the year.

Robert Eggers' darkly comic fable is a black-and-white fever dream of a film that keels between sea shanty and psychodrama, with heavy doses of the absurd.

Proves The Witch was no fluke. Dafoe and Pattinson dazzle in a luminous exercise in maritime madness.

Director and co-writer Robert Eggers continues the unpleasant but gripping work he began with his debut The Witch, or at least the aspect of it that has to do with taking the measure of a man. Then, the sins of a father were visited upon his children after he let his pride get the better of him and set himself up as the head of his own church and the ruler of his own kingdom. Now, Eggers sets up Robert Pattinson (and his somewhat slippery accent) as a young man who dreams of the very same thing — a place of his own, with no one telling him what to do. “Same old boring story,” snorts boss Willem Dafoe in between farts and rants and accusations that Pattinson is falling down on the job. And what a job: assistant lighthouse keeper on a godforsaken rock, made to do everything except what he wants: keep company with the light. Exactly how much of a man he is seems to have a great deal to do with how much shit he’s willing to eat — from his boss, from nature, from the whole rotten, rotting world. (A world that includes his mortal coil and its rather insistent desires.) If he can’t take it, why then, he’s just a self-pitying child. Or worse, a dog. Or worse… It’s rough going, but it’s beautifully filmed and framed in black and white, and Dafoe is wild and wildly entertaining in a role that feels written to match his every aspect.

★★★★★ There’s something heartening about genius being put in the service of madness. Already this Cannes we’ve seen the exemplar in a fully restored...

Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe star as 1890s Maine lighthouse keepers locked in a battle of wills as a storm rages inside and out in 'The Lighthouse,' the new chiller from ‘The Witch’ director Robert Eggers.

Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe lose their minds in the latest from "The Witch" director Robert Eggers.

This period chiller starring Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe sacrifices storyline for atmosphere

Who would have guessed that Robert Pattinson would turn out to be the daring one, the "Twilight" star who filled his post glitter-makeup career with the most fascinating projects? "Good Time," High Life," "Damsel," "The Lost City of Z," "The Rover" -- the guy the fangirl mags labeled "R. Patts" has challenged himself and managed…

Robert Eggers follows up The Witch with the best movie about bad roommates ever made.

We watched them and rated them, now read all about them. The Globe’s critics are reviewing a wide selection of films screening at TIFF 2019 so you’ll know which to line up for, which to catch later and which to skip. Look for more reviews to be added throughout the festival

The actors play it big and bold in a visually striking, black and white horror show.

In the 1890s, a pair of lighthouse keepers fight the spirits and one another in Robert Eggers' darkly exciting follow-up to 'The Witch.'

The Lighthouse by director Robert Eggers: The story of an aging lighthouse keeper named Old who lives in early 20th-century Maine.

If you want to watch Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson drive each other insane in a lighthouse, then 'The Lighthouse' is the movie for you.

The latest from The Witch director finds madness in isolation

The Lighthouse, Robert Eggers’ follow-up to The Witch, is a stranger, sillier horror movie starring Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe as lighthouse keepers whose sanity starts to slip when they’re assigned to a four-week stretch alone on an island.

There are elevator pitches and then there is the new black and white horror film from Robert Eggers, which can be summed up in just seven words: two men go nuts in a lighthouse. Stuck together in Nova Scotia in the late 19th century are Thomas (Willem Dafoe), a â?owickyâ?? (lighthouse keeper) with a beard thicker than his jumper and a Popeye pipe in the corner of his gob, and his

For his follow-up to The Witch, Robert Eggers launches a salty story of two men trapped in a turret

Enter "The Lighthouse " at your own risk. This is a stark, moody, surreal and prolonged descent into seaside madness that will surely not be for everyone.

With 'The Lighthouse,' Robert Eggers loosens the noose of veracity just enough to allow for so much absurdism to peek through.

Two lighthouse keepers go mad in the new horror film from the director of ‘The Witch.’

The latest thriller written and directed by Robert Eggers ("The Witch") is a stormy, magnificently crafted 19th century gothic.

A terrific filmmaker, especially since there aren’t very many terrific filmmakers, deserves better than to be compared to his previous accomplishments. In other words, I loved director Robert Eggers’ debut feature, “The Witch,” a 2015 tale of 17th century witchcraft and goat mismanagement, while admiring without quite completely getting the hang or the rhythm of […]

Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe are driven to insanity in Robert Eggers' psycho-drama. Read the Empire review.

Robert Eggers follows up The Witch with a starkly-compelling Expressionist drama

Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson go toe-to-toe in The Witch director’s sophomore effort.

Review: Robert Pattinson’s easy naturalism curdles into something unnerving and evil

If Satan was the antagonist of Robert Eggers’ first movie, The Witch, then God might be the antagonist of his second movie, The Lighthouse. Even though the setting and the tight aspect ratio suggests claustrophobia, that’s not what’s at work here. The burden at play is the carrying of an increasing amount of weight. The

★★★★☆ Back in 2015, Robert Eggers delighted critics with the flesh-pecking horror of The Witch, a directorial feature debut which blended the theatrics of...

From the director of The Witch comes a psychosexual drama, a pitch-black comedy, and a tale of two men driving each other nuts.