Ghost World: Critic Reviews

For all its weirdness and weightless suburban ennui, this is actually a very plausible, understated account of late adolescent pain.

By sharp turns poignant, disturbing and hysterically funny.

Like "Rushmore" with a female slant, "Ghost World" tackles the true torches we often keep to ourselves as well as the struggle of feeling like a specter, or, as Enid says, as though "everyone's too stupid to realize you."

Most of Ghost World is funny, but the laughs are inextricably tied to the painful alienation and self-loathing that comes with living on society's fringes.

...satisfying in ways that more than compensate for the film's soft ending.

A pretty good comedy with great performances by its cast but fails in its delivery.

If more people appreciated stories like this, movies and comic books would be better off.

Anyone who grew up in the suburbs or ever felt out of place will find something to relate to in this film.

his is 'teen comedy' of startling sophistication -- with horribly funny bits as well. A true original, with sharp humour, subtle detail and painfully realistic characters.

Based on Clowes' underground comic book, this is a tale of how the mediocrity of American subsurbs can suffocate its creative denizens, all misfits of course; it's extremely well acted by Steve Buscemi and Thora Birch.

It isn't a perfect film, but it's never less than strikingly original.

Zwigoff makes Enid's neighborhood a truly strange and haunted place, where plastic people robotically follow their society's norms, and those who resist are left angry, alienated, and without any ideas for how to survive.

Like its heroine, Ghost World dares to drop its defenses, deepening as it shifts from evoking sympathy for the judgmental misanthrope to saluting the bravery of those who find beauty in others' flaws.

E interessante notar como duas amigas, inicialmente tao proximas em seu cinismo e em sua presuncao, se distanciam gradualmente, embora pouca coisa mude alem do universo colegial que as cercava.

There are bits of wicked humor, but Zwigoff begins by laughing at the kooks in Clowes' ghost of a world and never stops. The real crime is that Clowes is content to join in with him.

Zwigoff pulls off something in Ghost World that seems a minor miracle -- he creates someone with a complex inner life.

Another whiny white suburban teen chick anthem film, I thought. And then, I found myself pleasantly surprised that it was something more than that.

One movie that kids should really bring their parents to.

When it's all said and done, this paean to the losers, misfits, outcasts and obsessives of the world proves to be nothing less than haunting.

Every performance in the film is perfect, from the leads to the smaller characters.

Poignant, insightful, wryly humorous portrait of American teenage non-conformity -- a wonderful, distinctive film, with a great soundtrack and terrific performances from its three leads. One of the best films of the year.

Much praised but, to me, ultimately an unsatisfying film.

Here, the fantasy is self-actualization and it creates an obsacle for the audience. Not to mention that this story settles in a place that essentially boxes the characters into an ending that has the doomed daydreaming aspect of a really awful songwriter.

The perfect antidote to the brainless, brutally stereotyped teen-agers of most Hollywood 'youth' movies.

Ah, nothing like teenage angst... with a bizarro twist.