The Witch

...en ovanligt originell skräckfilm som inte följer de vanliga stöpta mallarna.

...situates itself very purposefully in an actual time and place; it doesn’t require some huge mental leap to connect its fictional terrors to the very real ones inflicted upon a group of innocents in the same geographic region...

I've talked a lot about what The Witch is about without mentioning how well it's about it. That's partly because the film is so consistently engrossing that surrendered to it early on.

... a well-balanced realism, especially when the supernatural, more than just implied in the early reveal of the supposed “witch,” really starts to take hold.

Some scenes look as pitiless and stark as a Michael Haneke composition, others as lush with magic as a Jan Pienkowski silhouette. The effect is supremely disquieting...