‘Nosferatu’ Is Accomplished and Masterful (Derogatory)

Not since Javier Bardem glowered his way through No Country for Old Men beneath a page boy haircut has a villain been as defined by their eccentric grooming choices as Bill Skarsgard in Robert Eggers’s remake of Nosferatu. In a movie that blatantly borrows its shape and many of its most striking images from various literary and cinematic incarnations of the Dracula myth, there’s really no such thing as a spoiler. Still, the biggest surprise in this lavish vampire drama has to do with the mysterious and reclusive Count Orlok’s facial hair, which is, as they say, a Choice—one that speaks to Eggers’s already much-ballyhooed sense of specificity, and also, perhaps, his more inscrutable sense of humor.