Ghost Reviews
Better than life itself.
| Apr 30, 2025
Demi Moore is beautiful and a master of the art of the single tear. Patrick Swayze is a singular hunk, a minotaur-like presence whose strength and grace never conflict.
| Feb 19, 2025
It conceives of an afterlife teeming with revenge, vigilantism and physical violence.
| Original Score: 1/4 | May 9, 2023
Ghost is proof of the fact that good writing still matters.
| Feb 1, 2023
This is a very entertaining fable. [Full review in Spanish]
| Nov 18, 2022
Not only is the comedy itself fresh, but it keeps the suspense well-stropped as well.
| Original Score: 3/4 | May 12, 2022
Works quite competently, not just in appealing visuals but also in a routinely witty script.
| Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 14, 2020
This entertaining film goes light on the metaphysics but heavy on the romance, the humor, and the drama.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 8, 2020
its appeal lies precisely in its unlikely melding of disparate generic elements-a film that literally has something in it for everyone
| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 28, 2020
Whoopi Goldberg's Tour de Farce performance almost makes Ghost worth a revisit.
| Original Score: C- | Jul 26, 2020
Ghost is a real genre-bender of a film...
| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 21, 2020
The Paramount Presents series has offered wonderful classic films restored and upgraded and Ghost makes an excellent addition to this collection.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 15, 2020
Ghost certainly offers more than what most of the summer's formula films offer.
| May 20, 2020
Rubin's script is a lethally effective tragicomic fantasy.
| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 14, 2020
Ghost modestly warns against indignant attitudes toward class status.
| Jul 13, 2015
A perfect balance of laughs and tears, a sparklingly funny script and a clever fantasy about ghostly goings on make this a superior blockbuster romance.
| Jun 25, 2013
The movie's slogan is "Believe," not an unreasonable request. But even those who'd be happy to comply must get past Ghost's one casting jaw-dropper, a certain woolly-mindedness to its script and a production prettified to the point of stickiness.
| Jun 25, 2013
What it offers, apart from the overblown special effects that seem inescapable in American movies, is an unusual and effective combination of swooning, morbid romance and screwball comedy.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 25, 2013
The passion and poignancy of trying to communicate with the dead is well-exploited here. Moore has never been more fetching.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 25, 2013
Given its obviously commercial aims, Ghost is remarkably appealing on a purely personal level. It is about how you deal with death.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 25, 2013