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By sharp turns poignant, disturbing and hysterically funny.
It has qualities -- a ferocious wit and a youthful snap and savvy -- that can make it irresistible to sophisticated older moviegoers and intelligent teenagers alike.
Never predictable, this movie is often hilarious as well as touching, subtly adapting the mise en scene of Clowes's original without being fancy or obtrusive about it.
A touching study of alienation that comes with no easy answers or excuses for those who cannot seem to connect in life.
[Zwigoff] has elicited remarkable performances.
Give this weirdly humanitarian picture a try, and don't be surprised if you find yourself smiling through the bummer.
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.
Offbeat indie dramedy will resonate with older teens.
...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.
A treatment only a couple of small steps away from the bland, barebones one the studio gives to the countless catalog titles they release every month.
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.
É interessante notar como duas amigas, inicialmente tão próximas em seu cinismo e em sua presunção, se distanciam gradualmente, embora pouca coisa mude além 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.
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