This is a wholly original film that takes preparation, patience, absorption, and reflection that some, or even many, may not be ready for.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 14, 2024

A Ghost Story is one of the most unique films I’ve ever seen. The gimmick of the bed sheet with the holes cut out for eyes could have come off as silly, but it never does thanks to the deft hands of David Lowery.

| Aug 8, 2024

For its sheer minimalistic approach, the film is a technical marvel in its own way.

| Original Score: A+ | Jul 1, 2024

Ultimately, A Ghost Story fails because it's too enamored with the gimmick of its be-sheeted ghost.

| Dec 6, 2023

A Ghost Story is unlike any ghost story you’ve ever seen. The pacing is measured, almost dreamlike, and within its mesmerizing one-and-a-half hour runtime there are at least half a dozen surprises you won’t see coming.

| Jul 20, 2023

On this date six years ago David Lowery’s ‘supernatural love story starring Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara opened in theatres. It remains one of the saddest and most beautiful films I’ve ever seen

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 8, 2023

…A Ghost Story is a mood piece and not for everyone, but it’s also a brave and original piece of cinema that muses thoughtful on the big issues…

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 9, 2022

Its story is patient and personal; its presentation audacious and impressionistic. And I was captivated by David Lowery’s unwillingness to embrace our expectations.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 19, 2022

Four people walked out of the screening I attended of A Ghost Story. I found it to be a profoundly beautiful and sad story of loss and the passage of time, of impermanence and change.

| Jun 21, 2022

While the film proves to be an ambitious and inventive approach to the usual ghost story tropes, Lowery over-explains the more abstract ideas and underemphasizes the emotional ones, leaving his film admirable, if disappointingly empty.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 23, 2022

It just aches with loss. There are these edits that allow for the immediate unyielding passage of time, that show the world disappearing in the blink of an eye, that moved me

| Jan 14, 2022

Moving at the speed of molasses trying to drip UP a wall, the movie clocks in at just over 90 minutes, yet many fidgety viewers will swear it runs at least four hours. Yet for those who can get attuned to its leisurely approach, it's a fascinating watch.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 10, 2021

A limp, intellectually lazy, leaden load of grief-posturing... a hollow thing that wears sorrow as a fashion accessory in the hopes that it makes it look mysterious.

| Jul 27, 2021

What's unique about Affleck's performance is that he gives it almost entirely from beneath a flowing, white sheet. It's method acting at its finest.

| May 18, 2021

A sad and funny haunted house movie...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 29, 2021

This film just struck a weird sensitive strange chord with me.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Apr 23, 2021

Some will absolutely hate it, some might cry, some might laugh at the silliness of it all. One thing is for sure, A Ghost Story is quite the out of body experience.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 15, 2021

A Ghost Story tells us to rejoice because, no matter how long we're stuck in the same place, every moment is an opportunity to begin anew.

| Dec 12, 2020

A Ghost Story is, for the most part, the best film that Lowery has ever made.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 1, 2020

Lowery crafts a haunting meditation on grief, the passage of time, the nature of memories, and the meaning of home.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 24, 2020