The Lighthouse

Set in the 1890s, The Lighthouse, the latest film from writer-director Robert Eggers (Witch), takes place on a desolate island of jagged black rock, where Tom (Willem Dafoe) and his new assistant Ephraim Winslow (Robert Pattinson) begin a four-week stint. Driven by two terrific performances by Dafoe and Pattinson, the intensely claustrophobic black and white film comes off as a particularly perverse Hitchcockian thriller. It screens tonight at 9:25 and tomorrow night at 8:10 at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque. Tickets cost $10 or $7 for Cinematheque members and students. (Niesel)