THE WITCH disgorges a deferential awe to the mysticism and regards our human folly with a cold glare

Rating: 8/10 (29 January 2020)

"In the thick of its blame-throwing, hallucination-effecting, sin-confessing chaos, all hell breaks loose with predictable outcomes, sinners must pay for their sins, whether it is pride or wrath, and Thomasin, ever elfin and dainty as a wide-eyed hare, eventually confirms our trepidation when she signs a book with the devil and eventually relishes in a witches' sabbath. Anya Taylor-Joy is a revelation who abandons herself to the rawest emotional states, while the close-knit cast is overall impressive, Ralph Ineson is alternatively sympathetic and antipathetic (when the Electra complex gives way to entrenched oscillation) as the beleaguered breadwinner, a gaunt-looking Kate Dickie stands out from the crowd as a tremendous force of grief, ire and desolation, by the same token, child actor Harvey Scrimshaw might touch on overacting in his final emotive outpouring of demonic possession."
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