Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

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Critics' Reviews

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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Eric Harrison
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 Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Ty Burr
The result has the dingy grace of pigeons flying across an urban wasteland.Read Full Review »
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Time: Richard Corliss
Niftily quirky.Read Full Review »
75
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
Weirdly intriguing.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Stephanie Zacharek
Every minute he's on screen, Whitaker makes Ghost Dog worth watching.Read Full Review »
63
USA Today: Staff [Not Credited]
The movie is still too solemn.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Jay Carr
Best when it's playful, toying with the fact that the Mafia has in a single generation been transmogrified from myth to joke.Read Full Review »
60
The New York Times: Dana Stevens
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 Full Review »
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Village Voice: J. Hoberman
A movie as laconic as its hero, Ghost Dog is nonetheless diminished by its most un-Zen-like attachment to this underlying sentimentality.Read Full Review »
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Slate: David Edelstein
Am I the only one who finds the substance of this movie repulsive?Read Full Review »
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