Quick review

Rating: 6/10 (30 June 2020)

I watched The Witch and I thought it was alright. The acting is pretty great and the child actors were just as good as the adults. The cinematography is great as well, but some of the shots are ruined by bad CGI, there's a shot where the smoke from the chimney is frozen still. The script is also pretty good and the use of the dialect of the time period was interesting and worked very will. That's what I liked. I thought the pacing was really bad and it made the movie boring when things that don't directly effect the plot were happening. Speaking of the plot I did not really like the direction the film went, it felt quite anti-climactic despite some really important things happening, I felt this way because I could see where the story was going as soon as the third act started. Finally something that is very important to me is music in and out of film, and the music is this film sucked, even worse than having bad music it was so inappropriately used that it genuinely ruined quite a few scenes for me. Having the main score absolutely Blair over a still shot of the forrest is so obnoxious.
Overall I recommend The Witch if it's the type of movie you think you will enjoy, overwise you might not enjoy it.