Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai Critic Reviews

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San Francisco Chronicle | Bob GrahamAdd Critic to Favorites

Jim Jarmusch has come up with something strange and amazing.Read the full review

Los Angeles Times | Eric HarrisonAdd Critic to Favorites

It's a nearly pitch-perfect melding of genres, influences and modes of expression--it's the first Mafia movie for the hip-hop age.Read the full review

Entertainment Weekly | Ty BurrAdd Critic to Favorites

The result has the dingy grace of pigeons flying across an urban wasteland.Read the full review

Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites

Weirdly intriguing.Read the full review

Boston Globe | Jay CarrAdd Critic to Favorites

Best when it's playful, toying with the fact that the Mafia has in a single generation been transmogrified from myth to joke.Read the full review

USA Today | Staff [Not Credited]Add Critic to Favorites

The movie is still too solemn.Read the full review

The New York Times | Dana StevensAdd Critic to Favorites

There is a lot of violence, but not much action; a plot involving vengeance, jealousy and double-crossing, but not a great deal of suspense.Read the full review

Slate | David EdelsteinAdd Critic to Favorites

Am I the only one who finds the substance of this movie repulsive?Read the full review

Variety | Todd McCarthyAdd Critic to Favorites

The gambits in Ghost Dog seem simply like literary and cinematic games devoid of any larger meaning.Read the full review

Washington Post | Stephen HunterAdd Critic to Favorites

It's too bloody to be funny and too silly to be dramatic and too self-indulgent to be anything other than what it is, one more bad movie.Read the full review

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