| 100 |
Baltimore Sun
A thoroughly absorbing, even transfixing, journey to a future that may already be upon us.
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| 100 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Jim Jarmusch has come up with something strange and amazing.
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| 91 |
Portland Oregonian
A purely cinematic experience. You've got to see it, in other words, to understand.
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| 90 |
LA Weekly
Laced with brilliantly knotted ideas on race, masculinity and cults of violence.
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| 90 |
Los Angeles Times
Eric Harrison
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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| 90 |
Film.com
What 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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| 89 |
Austin Chronicle
It'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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| 88 |
New York Daily News
Perversely funny.
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| 83 |
Entertainment Weekly
The result has the dingy grace of pigeons flying across an urban wasteland.
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| 80 |
Dallas Observer
This 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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| 80 |
Time
Niftily quirky.
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| 75 |
TNT RoughCut
Spencer H. Abbott
An 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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| 75 |
Chicago Sun-Times
Weirdly intriguing.
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| 75 |
Christian Science Monitor
Whitaker's acting is highly creative and Jarmusch's filmmaking is as elegant and original as ever.
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| 75 |
New York Post
So filled with amusing, idiosyncratic touches and unexpectedly charming characters that you mostly don't mind its excesses.
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| 75 |
Chicago Tribune
It's fun, but not obvious fun.
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| 75 |
Charlotte Observer
(Jarmusch's) most accessible film after "Night on Earth," yet it's still elliptical and enigmatic.
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| 70 |
Chicago Reader
It'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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| 70 |
Salon.com
Every minute he's on screen, Whitaker makes Ghost Dog worth watching.
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| 67 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
(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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| 63 |
Boston Globe
Best 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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| 63 |
USA Today
The movie is still too solemn.
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| 60 |
Village Voice
A 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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| 60 |
The New York Times
There 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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| 52 |
Mr. Showbiz
Likable, but frustratingly lazy, Ghost Dog has coolness running all through it, but little substance.
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| 50 |
Miami Herald
Jarmusch has never seemed quite this baffling -- or quite this dull.
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| 50 |
Slate
Am I the only one who finds the substance of this movie repulsive?
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| 50 |
TV Guide
Points for an interesting concept; demerits for the dull execution.
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| 40 |
Variety
The gambits in Ghost Dog seem simply like literary and cinematic games devoid of any larger meaning.
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| 30 |
Washington Post
It'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.
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| 12 |
San Francisco Examiner
It's too cryptic and unfulfilled to serve as a tool for anything beyond its own obfuscation.
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