A Ghost Story: reviews

What the critics say average 8.7 from 7

• 9.1 The PlaylistNoel Murray The most important character in this film turns out to be the house, which at first seems like the typical location for a low-budget art-piece, but later reflects Lowery?s grander vision for a story about the impressions we make on each other, and the legacies we leave behind. Read
• 9.1 IndiewireEric Kohn Lowery manages to find entertainment value and genuine intrigue from his outlandish scenario, synthesizing the magical realism of his earlier films with a tighter grasp of tone. Read
• 9.0 Screen CrushMatt Singer (...) all of the slow scenes and long takes are part of Lowery?s master plan to rewrite the rules that govern haunted house movies, and even the way we think about life, death, and time itself. Read
• 9.0 The Hollywood ReporterDavid Rooney The sense of time passing is hypnotic, and the image of the ghost, wounded and watching, unable to communicate or offer comfort, becomes more eerie and beautiful the longer we observe it. Read
• 8.5 The WrapSteve Pond It?s a strange, sad, fragile little thing that should make us snicker, but instead it fills the screen with grace and beauty. Read
• 8.0 The GuardianJordan Hoffman For a film that?s only 87 minutes long, 'A Ghost Story' has nothing but time. This is a movie where, to the inevitable titters of those who don?t like a little formal experimentation, Rooney Mara sits on the kitchen floor and eats a condolence pie in one lengthy, unedited shot. Read
• 8.0 VarietyPeter Debruge Inspired by an argument the filmmaker had with his wife (he didn?t want to abandon the old house where he could feel the echoes of not only the memories they had shared, but also the past tenants who had inhabited it), ?A Ghost Story? anthropomorphizes a given space in time. Read