I anticipated this with bated breaths as it is the second feature from writer-director Robert Eggars, who directed The Witch, my favorite film of the 2010s. He makes movies about a time and a place depressed by the social implications of the time in which they exist.

Where the Witch was a story about womanhood in the past and the near-impossible standard of being a woman in a world that doesn't encourage femininity yet also requires it, the Lighthouse is…