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Susan Stark, Detroit News: Read more
John Hartl, Seattle Times: Drily funny. Read more
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: Ghost Dog does right by fans of gangsters, hip-hop and samurais. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: Fascinating but uneven. Read more
Steve Murray, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Compellingly strange twist on the mafia genre Read more
Eric Harrison, Los Angeles Times: Rueful, funny, deliciously off-kilter. Read more
Louis B. Parks, Houston Chronicle: Too whimsically staged to take as serious suspense, too grimly real to be amusing. Read more
Steven Rosen, Denver Post: Ghost Dog can be as now as the latest hit rap disc, with its hip-hop-culture references and remarkably chilly and affecting score by The RZA of Wu-Tang Clan. Read more
Ty Burr, Entertainment Weekly: Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai brings the minimalist director who found fame with 1984's Stranger Than Paradise back to the land of the living. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: A handsomely shot, cool-sounding head-scratcher of a film that probably isn't worth the wear on the fingernails. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Jarmusch has introduced historical references ... that have opened up his imagination and extended his thematic and affective range well beyond that of his first five features. Read more
Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture: By turns irritating and inviting; Jarmusch's allusive metaphysics has a sensual glide, but much of what he's doing here is also too, too hip. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Only the most ardent Jarmusch fan will be able to suspend disbelief, and the movie turns into an exercise in ideas rather than an excursion along a stable narrative route. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: By the end, Whitaker's character has generated true poignance. Read more
Bob Graham, San Francisco Chronicle: Surprisingly funny. Read more
Geoff Andrew, Time Out: At once a tribute to traditional notions of honour, loyalty, friendship and professionalism, and a stylish, ironic pastiche inspired by the likes of Melville and Suzuki, it's very funny, insightful, and highly original. Read more
J. Hoberman, Village Voice: Ghost Dog is an impeccably shot and sensationally scored deadpan parody of two current popular modes -- the hit-man glorification saga and the Cosa Nostra family drama. Read more