Not only is the comedy itself fresh, but it keeps the suspense well-stropped as well.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 12, 2022

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

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

One of the finest (and weepiest) love stories ever to hit the big screen, Ghost is a a fundamental human tale that touches the hardest heart.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 25, 2013

Ghost is one part horror picture, one part comedy, one part love story, one part murder mystery and four parts entrancing.

| Jun 25, 2013

A bad movie that a lot of people will like.

| Jun 25, 2013

There's something offensive about the movie's chintzy view of death and the way it periodically flirts with promising conceits only to back away from them in as cowardly a manner as possible.

| Jun 25, 2013

It sounds like a horror movie, but it's a romantic fairy tale. The scariest thing about it is its shamelessness.

| Jun 25, 2013

Ghost is a dazzlingly enjoyable pop thriller.

| Original Score: A | Sep 7, 2011

Ghost is an odd creation -- at times nearly smothering in arty somberness, at others veering into good, wacky fun.

| Oct 18, 2008

A comedy, romance and supernatural thriller rolled into one, Ghost is a zippy pastiche that somehow manages to seem fresh even though it's built entirely out of borrowed parts.

| Apr 7, 2008

The real credit for turning a minor mystic romance into one of the most enjoyable movies of the year rests on an excellent script by Bruce Joel Rubin, and on the surprisingly sure direction of Jerry Zucker.

| Jun 24, 2006

Ghost' is too slow moving at times, and a few of its special effects look incongruously silly, particularly those showing what happens to ghosts not as virtuous as Sam.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | May 20, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 10, 2003

Zucker dutifully pushes all the buttons -- romance, thrills, laughs, tears -- that have been pushed before by more assured hands.

| May 12, 2001

Surprisingly entertaining.

| Jan 1, 2000