The Lighthouse currently dominates The Witch 73–27

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The Witch is an extraordinary debut, and nothing about this margin diminishes it. But The Lighthouse is where Eggers became Eggers — where period obsession met creative anarchy and produced something nobody else could have made. Pattinson's confession, Dafoe's fart jokes, the mermaid figurine, the tentacle: individually absurd, collectively devastating, held together by a directorial vision so specific it borders on insanity. The Witch's restraint produced admiration. The Lighthouse's abandon produced devotion. Devotion widens margins in a way admiration doesn't. The debut made Eggers worth watching. The follow-up made him worth following into whatever absurd historical nightmare he attempts next, and that's a different kind of allegiance entirely.