Ghost Town Anthology Reviews
This is Québec, its legacy, its numerous attempts to form a national identity; it is a place literally haunted by its past, and Côté refuses to mourn its forthcoming extinction.
| Jul 13, 2021
As the film progresses, layers of Côté's scheme began to peel off, revealing a brilliantly crafted allegory about an enclosed community clueless in dealing with "the stranger others".
| Jul 3, 2021
A slow burn that builds to a disquieting climax.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 4, 2021
Ghost Town Anthology tip-toes during its entire duration, quietly examining the past and present of a town that is both sinister and whimsical.
| Jun 2, 2020
A soulful cinematic treatise on the gradual, painful loss of a city's soul.
| Original Score: 8/10 | May 8, 2020
The bleak chill of the Quebecois winter seeps into the very bones of Denis Côté's latest film, giving a sense of aching longing to the action.
| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 24, 2020
The gradual, matter-of-fact way that Côté transforms Ghost Town Anthology into an actual ghost story is quite impressive.
| Original Score: B | Apr 22, 2020
As this elegantly unnerving drama peels back the mundane veneer of life in Irénée-les-Neiges, it finds a disquiet that manifests itself in supernatural visitations.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 19, 2020
In the most complimentary way possible, this has the bizarre sense of being a strange curio someone plucked from a skip and somehow decided to put on a cinema screen.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 13, 2019
A strange and unusual mix of small-town ennui, familial anxiety and existential anarchy.
| Oct 3, 2019
Progressively lost in a myriad of anecdotes that. [Full review in Spanish]
| Sep 25, 2019
Ghost Town Anthology is the kind of film where you get out just as much as you put in.
| Sep 1, 2019
The dead don't die in this subdued and eerily strange drama, but Ghost Town Anthology isn't a standard ghost story.
| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 24, 2019
Ghost Town Anthology is an entrancing yet unsettling allegory that builds like the pressure of an approaching storm that never quite arrives.
| Original Score: 4/5 | May 22, 2019
Ghost Town Anthology might be Côté's best film yet, and I say this as a passionate fan. It's a stripped down horror flick that sends shivers to the bone like a winter chill on a February day.
| May 10, 2019
A nifty little item that combines Beckett-like austerity with a B-movie bite.
| Mar 28, 2019
[W]hile it includes some scary moments, its primary emotion is consolation, even solace.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 18, 2019
This is what a movie is capable of, in setting a connection between us and the profound natural world with such grace and simplicity.
| Mar 15, 2019
Borduas's work seems to be asking the central question of how he can create art to make people see the world differently. Ghost Town Anthology attempts an answer.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 15, 2019
A compassionate, subtle commentary on the casualties of urbanization.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 12, 2019