While it may lack the revelatory punch of Polanski's finest films, Ghost Writer benefits from stylish direction, a tense screenplay, and a strong central performance from Ewan McGregor.
This isn't a great film. You won't carry it around in your heart for years to come... But it'll keep you with it right to the very end, which has to be worth something. It may even be worth quite a lot.
Read full articleThe dialogue and suspense created by director Polanski are first rate. You will enjoy this film.
Read full articleIn the total context of Polanski's hard life and grim ordeals ... The Ghost Writer constitutes a miracle of artistic and psychological resilience.
Read full articlePolanski has made a genre piece with a verve and vitality that's in sadly short supply.
Read full articleIt is good to see Polanski exercising his gift for the sinister. It's a spooky world he evokes here but its architecture doesn't hang together, which is a great pity.
Read full articleBut for fans of the auteur able to separate his personal life from his cinematic one, and for others open to old-school suspense where no one gets away clean and failure truly is an option, this political whirligig delivers the goods.
Read full articleThe first impressionable thriller of 2010. [Full review in Spanish]
Read full articleIt's the kind of film that comes along all too rarely, and you find yourself hoping it won't be his last.
Read full articleWatching Blair's thinly disguised surrogate get put through the wringer in The Ghost is probably the closest we'll ever get to see him face retribution for his follies and crimes.
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