“Everyone: Feel free to start your story at the point at which stuff starts happening. We don’t need to debate about going to see a witch if we’re going to go and see the witch regardless of that debate’s outcome. Let’s just go see the damn witch.
That’s how I felt about that movie about witches, The VVitch. By the time you get to the end, there are three possibilities:
1. She’s not a witch, nor is anyone, because witches ain’t real.
2. She is a witch.
3. Other ending that I didn’t come up with that would have been a genuine surprise.
The ending of that movie is not #3. So you kinda check the box, solve the “mystery,” and then…regret getting the large popcorn. “