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100I wanted to hug this movie. It takes such a risky journey and never steps wrong. It creates specific, original, believable, lovable characters, and meanders with them through their inconsolable days, never losing its sense of humor.
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100Ghost World resists convenient closures and summaries and some may take issue with its open-endedness. But anything else would have been phony, and Enid would never have stood for it.
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100It's surely the best depiction of teenage eccentricity since "Rushmore," and its incisive satire of the boredom and conformity that rule our thrill-seeking, individualistic land, and also its question-mark ending, reminded me of "The Graduate."
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91A buoyant, funny, and disarmingly humane comedy of beautiful losers in revolt.
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90Offers an exquisite tour of the twilight zone between high school and the so-called real world, as well as between bohemian subculture and the even stranger culture of America at large.
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90Zwigoff pulls off something in Ghost World that seems a minor miracle -- he creates someone with a complex inner life.
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90Let the unsettling secrets of this outrageously funny and steadily engrossing meditation on the life of two high school misfits after graduation catch you by surprise. It's that good.
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90Keep your "Lara Croft" and your "Shrek": For me, the summer's reigning icons are Enid, Thora Birch's geek goddess in Ghost World, and her action-movie analogue.
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90In the hearts of losers, Zwigoff’s found a real winner.
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90Pitch-perfect -- not just the most enjoyable movie of the year but the first (after Crumb) to get the tone of a certain strain of "underground" comic right.
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90In this arid landscape, the edifice of Ghost World, with all its acute insolence, stands out like the Taj Mahal.
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90Smart, surpassingly odd, extremely funny and mysteriously endearing at the same time.
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90A character so real and poignant (yet hysterically funny), she'll linger for months or years.
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90Buscemi makes Seymour into a character you simply want to see again and again. He's the most appealing, amusing "loser" anyone could ever share old records with.
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90If, like me, you've been wondering how Terry Zwigoff, the brilliant documentary filmmaker who made "Crumb," would negotiate his shift to fiction filmmaking, here's your answer: brilliantly.
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88A unique bond still develops between the two outcasts, leading to an unexpected resolution that ends this subtle, deeply humane movie on an ambiguous, but unmistakably hopeful, note.
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88Funny, insightful, unpredictable and blessed with pitch-perfect performances, Ghost World is one of the year's best movies.
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88As hip, funny and truthful a sleeper as has ever flown under Tinseltown's radar.
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88There's a loneliness at the heart of this world, and Ghost World, that's really touching -- and a bit scary, too.
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88Ghost World draws super, natural performances.
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88Whatever portion of the alienated teen angst championship Thora Birch left unclaimed after ''American Beauty,'' she nails down brilliantly in Ghost World.
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83A funny, sad, scary and ultimately tragic coming-of-age drama/black comedy that skillfully -- and uncompromisingly -- creates its own world and uniquely pessimistic vision.
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80The results are both savagely funny and poignant for anyone who's ever had a friendship that felt like their only connection to the outside world.
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80This mordantly funny, emotionally piquant depiction of post-adolescent angst also has its roots in the graphic novel format.
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80Ghost World is above all a disquieting consciousness-raiser.
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80By sharp turns poignant, disturbing and hysterically funny.
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80Despite the presence of several sublimely cracked actors and some of the most abrasive white-trash caricatures since "Raising Arizona," Birch totally owns this movie.
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75What I did like unreservedly was the acting. Enid, as enacted by the sometimes astonishing Birch, is one of the more convincing, no-nonsense teens in recent movies.
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75Has social, psychological, and ultimately mystical overtones that raise it leagues above most other teen-centered comedies.
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Bests most other teen comedies right off the bat. If you got a kick out of "Crumb," this film will crack you up.
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75In his first fiction feature, Zwigoff doesn't forget to bring the funny. But he doesn't bring enough poetry.
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