Comments on: The Ghost Writer

By: The Ides of March » Movie Monster

The Ides of March » Movie Monster — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 05:03:22 +0000

[...] friend; the irony is so heavy you couldn’t pick it up with a forklift. Where’s the finesse of The Ghost Writer or In the Loop? I hate to pigeonhole the filmmakers, who work in a system as corrupt as that of [...]

By: Certified Copy » Movie Monster

Certified Copy » Movie Monster — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 04:03:32 +0000

[...] us like a swarthy Continental. Binoche’s character doesn’t have a name—sometimes a bad omen, sometimes not—but she’s a 40-something Frenchwoman who’s run an antique shop in Italy for five years. (Is [...]

By: Black Swan » Movie Monster

Black Swan » Movie Monster — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 22:31:29 +0000

[...] abstracted from the sources of true horror. This movie’s been compared to Rosemary’s Baby, but Polanski’s chills seeped into the everyday like contaminated groundwater; Aronofsky’s film has no [...]

By: Never Let Me Go » Movie Monster

Never Let Me Go » Movie Monster — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:26:51 +0000

[...] recreates that atmosphere; but the movie is like a storm system that never hits dry land. Think The Ghost Writer but with the paranoia wrung out and replaced by thick, melancholic, “humanist” sludge—a stiff [...]

By: The Square » Movie Monster

The Square » Movie Monster — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 04:02:37 +0000

[...] banal. The lovers long to escape—but where to? In terms of atmosphere, The Square is like The Ghost Writer’s insensate kid brother—like an existential drama by a prisoner who didn’t even know he was [...]

By: The White Ribbon » Movie Monster

The White Ribbon » Movie Monster — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 04:15:45 +0000

[...] This isn’t a sustained or lovable work; I’d rather spend a rainy afternoon intrigued by The Ghost Writer or bingeing on Bad Lieutenant than with Haneke’s meditation on neonatal Nazism. But there’s [...]