shot in black-and-white on a piece of Atlantic rock off the coast of Nova Scotia, Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson give two outstanding performances in what can hardly have been the most pleasant shoot
it's the best movie about bad roommates ever made; It's a stunning showcase for Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe to unleash their wildest extremes, by positioning them at the center of a two-hander about a descent into madness in the middle of nowhere
it is explosively scary and captivatingly beautiful; Apart from everything else, this is a sublime film visually; Very few films can make you scared and excited at the same time. Just like the lighthouse beam, this is dazzling and dangerous
Eggers prefers to let us go gently, deliciously mad along with his doomed duo, with the ravenous seagulls wheeling in the sky, the sea beating ceaselessly on the rocks and our timbers shivering in exquisite uncertainty until the last