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All very well put and I agree.

I felt like the flashback was reminiscent of The Witch, I felt some Hocus Pocus in there too, in the sense that it felt a bit restrained.

It's one of those cases where I end up preferring the middle part of a trilogy.

Just watched this. Agree with all your thoughts - but was it just me that found the movie so dark? 50% of the film seemed terribly lit to me, almost hard to make out what was going on at times.