The transformation of "Ghost Story" from novel to film is this year's best example of why some writers hate to see their books made into movies.

| Sep 19, 2021

Director John Irvin, so good at the intricacies of "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" has come a cropper here.

| Sep 19, 2021

"Ghost Story" is just what its title says it is, a ghost story, and a humdinger of a ghost story at that.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 19, 2021

A noble attempt. It just didn't happen to work very well.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 19, 2021

Ghost Story is a horror, all right, but it isn't even remotely scary.

| Sep 19, 2021

There's somewhere in horror surprise movies where a reviewer has to stop telling and just start recommending, and I think it's about right here for Ghost Story.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 19, 2021

Disastrous distillation of Peter Straub's overrated but at least tolerably coherent novel.

| Jun 24, 2006

The movie is told with style. It goes without saying that style is the most important single element in every ghost story, since without it even the most ominous events disintegrate into silliness.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 23, 2004

The mystery becomes less and less mysterious until, during the final six or seven minutes, you may want to hurl a sharp instrument at the screen.

| Aug 30, 2004