JamesG
03-05-2010, 05:40 PM
Movie Reviews: The Ghost Writer
Roman Polanski's Ghost Writer is expanding to 143 theaters this weekend, and winning additional critical praise as it does.
The Chicago Sun-Times's Roger Ebert, who initially reviewed the movie last month, gives it four stars and remarks that it "is the work of a man who knows how to direct a thriller. Smooth, calm, confident, it builds suspense instead of depending on shock and action."
Stars Pierce Brosnan and Ewan McGregor also receive much praise for their performances, and Elizabeth Weitzman in the New York Daily News singles out McGregor's, which she calls "his best work in recent memory."
Polanski, she writes, is "an expert at building the sort of intense atmosphere that leaves his audience in a state of edgy paranoia. It's a safe bet you'll be looking over your shoulder when you leave the theater to head home."
Kenneth Turan in the Los Angeles Times, who also reviewed the movie last month, describes it as "a dark pearl of a movie whose great flair and precision make it Polanski's best work in quite a while."
But Kyle Smith in the New York Post dismisses it as a "corny paranoid thriller."
And Roger Moore, who gives the movie 2 1/2 stars, concludes in the Orlando Sentinel: "It's not one of Polanski's masterpieces, but The Ghost Writer doesn't dilute his reputation as a master of suspense."
- IMDB News
Roman Polanski's Ghost Writer is expanding to 143 theaters this weekend, and winning additional critical praise as it does.
The Chicago Sun-Times's Roger Ebert, who initially reviewed the movie last month, gives it four stars and remarks that it "is the work of a man who knows how to direct a thriller. Smooth, calm, confident, it builds suspense instead of depending on shock and action."
Stars Pierce Brosnan and Ewan McGregor also receive much praise for their performances, and Elizabeth Weitzman in the New York Daily News singles out McGregor's, which she calls "his best work in recent memory."
Polanski, she writes, is "an expert at building the sort of intense atmosphere that leaves his audience in a state of edgy paranoia. It's a safe bet you'll be looking over your shoulder when you leave the theater to head home."
Kenneth Turan in the Los Angeles Times, who also reviewed the movie last month, describes it as "a dark pearl of a movie whose great flair and precision make it Polanski's best work in quite a while."
But Kyle Smith in the New York Post dismisses it as a "corny paranoid thriller."
And Roger Moore, who gives the movie 2 1/2 stars, concludes in the Orlando Sentinel: "It's not one of Polanski's masterpieces, but The Ghost Writer doesn't dilute his reputation as a master of suspense."
- IMDB News