'The Witch' Conjures Up A Chilly, Must-See Tale Of Puritan Horrors

Around this time last year, anyone monitoring the chatter pouring out of Sundance knew "The Witch" was the festival's primo sleeper. Its esteem happened organically, without any star power or pre-festival buzz. Robert Eggers' assured directorial debut, set a few decades before the Salem witch trials and subtitled "A New England Folktake," was an unbridled Sundance success story. "A star is born," the industry seemed to say of Eggers and his collective cast. When the movie opens this weekend, we ...