I'm surprising myself with a 2.5 rating on a Robert Eggers film, I really am. But that is what I felt leaving the theater. I'm sure the high bar set by his previous films is the root cause, as Nosferatu isn't by any means a bad film. It's just not a great one.
There were few scenes in which I was truly immersed in the world of the film, few scenes where I enthusiastically bought into the horror tropes that,…