Ghost World

The greatest distinction of "Ghost World" is its singular spirit. Here's a dark, deadpan comedy about alienated kids that manages to be smart, surpassingly odd, extremely funny and mysteriously endearing at the same time.

See it for Birch's hostile stare and Johansson's devastating monotone.

Most of Ghost World is funny, but the laughs are inextricably tied to the painful alienation and self-loathing that comes with living on society's fringes.

By sharp turns poignant, disturbing and hysterically funny.

his is 'teen comedy' of startling sophistication -- with horribly funny bits as well. A true original, with sharp humour, subtle detail and painfully realistic characters.

It isn't a perfect film, but it's never less than strikingly original.

[Director Terry Zwigoff] has a gift for understated moments of wry humor and a sensitivity to the ennui surrounding the lost Generation Y girls so busy sniping and skewering the “losers” around them to find any direction in their own floating lives

This kind of subtle moral isn’t as readily available to most audiences, but should appeal to the younger generation who are strapped with the burden of carrying society into a new century filled with strife, misery and great opportunity.

Ghost World remains pretty special in its old-boned melancholy.

A coming-of-age film that actually tries to show an uncompromised vision of a kid finding herself, even if she doesn’t always like what she finds.