In light of its director’s high-profile September 2009 arrest — and the festering old wounds broken open anew because of it — Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer may be the rare movie in which the name ...

In "The Ghost Writer," Roman Polanski most clearly means to evoke Hitchcock. He builds his scenes through ominous music, the rhythms of his editing and a central figure, an innocent, who struggles to ...

A writer moves into a Malibu beach house, and comes up against the ghost of an actress who supposedly had committed suicide there 30 years previously, but had been murdered by her boyfriend. The ghost ...

Roman Polanski's new film, the deliciously unsettling The Ghost Writer, is a dark pearl of a movie, made with the flair and precision of a director suddenly restored to the height of his powers. The ...

I usually know if I’m going to like a film pretty early on. But that wasn’t the case with Paul Wilkins’ The Ghost Writer. I kept going back and forth throughout the picture’s runtime. In fact, I am ...

Roman Polanski's all-too-faithful adaptation of a bestseller is low on sustained tension. Pic’s literalism is also its biggest handicap. Eight years since his last major success, “The Pianist,” the 76 ...

In the craptacular month of February, when Hollywood typically drowns us in all-star drool like Valentine’s Day, it’s indecent luck having two films in play directed by indisputable masters. First ...