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Critics Consensus: With acerbic wit, Terry Zwigoff fashions Daniel Clowes' graphic novel into an intelligent, comedic trip through deadpan teen angst.
Critic Consensus: With acerbic wit, Terry Zwigoff fashions Daniel Clowes' graphic novel into an intelligent, comedic trip through deadpan teen angst.
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The greatest distinction of "Ghost World" is its singular spirit. Here's a dark, deadpan comedy about alienated kids that manages to be smart, surpassingly odd, extremely funny and mysteriously endearing at the same time.
See it for Birch's hostile stare and Johansson's devastating monotone.
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.
By sharp turns poignant, disturbing and hysterically funny.
It isn't a perfect film, but it's never less than strikingly original.
Zwigoff pulls off something in Ghost World that seems a minor miracle -- he creates someone with a complex inner life.
Ghost World is animated by a tension between Seymour's 78 rpm universe and Enid's dedication to a punk etho
Ghost World is very funny but also very perceptive, and it offers Steve Buscemi one of the defining roles of his career.
While this isn't a showy or flashy movie, it has social, psychological, and ultimately mystical overtones that raise it leagues above most other teen-centered comedies.
The modest yet redeeming triumph of Ghost World is the offhand way it brings to the screen a streak of American dark humor that is dour, resilient and unexpectedly infectious.
A top draw adaptation of a cracking comic-book.
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."
A film worthy enough to have Steve Buscemi as a romantic lead! Didn't see THAT coming. Thora Birch and Scarlett Johansson nail it as too nominally self-aware babes in an all but oblivious world, it shivers me timbers! See it.
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Dull and listless despite the good cast.
Nothing comes close.
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