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89It's the kind of movie you wish you had more time to absorb and could see more than once before reviewing.
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100A thoroughly absorbing, even transfixing, journey to a future that may already be upon us.
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63Best when it's playful, toying with the fact that the Mafia has in a single generation been transmogrified from myth to joke.
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75(Jarmusch's) most accessible film after "Night on Earth," yet it's still elliptical and enigmatic.
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70It's beautifully cast and filmed (cinematography by the matchless Robby Muller) and often quite moving, despite the fact that most of the characters are never developed much beyond mythic or parodic prototypes.
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75Weirdly intriguing.
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75It's fun, but not obvious fun.
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75Whitaker's acting is highly creative and Jarmusch's filmmaking is as elegant and original as ever.
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80This infusion of warrior philosophy is the gas in Ghost Dog's tank, and Jarmusch pumps it up for maximum octane throughout.
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83The result has the dingy grace of pigeons flying across an urban wasteland.
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90What makes the film so special is that while tickling your postmodern funnybone, it never forgets to make you care for its characters, in a welcome, and almost traditional way.
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90Laced with brilliantly knotted ideas on race, masculinity and cults of violence.
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It's a nearly pitch-perfect melding of genres, influences and modes of expression--it's the first Mafia movie for the hip-hop age.
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50Jarmusch has never seemed quite this baffling -- or quite this dull.
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52Likable, but frustratingly lazy, Ghost Dog has coolness running all through it, but little substance.
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88Perversely funny.
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75So filled with amusing, idiosyncratic touches and unexpectedly charming characters that you mostly don't mind its excesses.
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91A purely cinematic experience. You've got to see it, in other words, to understand.
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70Every minute he's on screen, Whitaker makes Ghost Dog worth watching.
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100Jim Jarmusch has come up with something strange and amazing.
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12It's too cryptic and unfulfilled to serve as a tool for anything beyond its own obfuscation.
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67(Jarmusch) seems...to introduce gratuitous bloodshed that is out of sync with the engaging, offbeat tempo and dark, comedic moral fable that has come before.
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50Am I the only one who finds the substance of this movie repulsive?
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60There is a lot of violence, but not much action; a plot involving vengeance, jealousy and double-crossing, but not a great deal of suspense.
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80Niftily quirky.
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75An ultra-violent cinematic rendering which will appeal to those moviegoers who like their action dramas laced with nice touches of meta-physicality and left-of-center humor.
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50Points for an interesting concept; demerits for the dull execution.
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63The movie is still too solemn.
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40The gambits in Ghost Dog seem simply like literary and cinematic games devoid of any larger meaning.
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60A movie as laconic as its hero, Ghost Dog is nonetheless diminished by its most un-Zen-like attachment to this underlying sentimentality.
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30It's too bloody to be funny and too silly to be dramatic and too self-indulgent to be anything other than what it is, one more bad movie.