Not nearly as neatly paced or focused as The Witch, Eggers' follow-up drunkenly staggers throughout its runtime getting lost in deep period details and the overwhelming force of both leads. Eggers may rely too much on shtick (some of the macabre flourishes almost seemed unnecessary to what could be a bare-bones psychological sea shanty drama) but that shtick is still fresh enough to distinguish itself from the mostly bland elevated-horror brand and assists Pattinson and Dafoe's work rather that distract…