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 ...

Roman Polanski’s terrific new thriller “The Ghost Writer” deftly reminds us what has long made the director so effective, in movies like “Repulsion” (1965), “Rosemary’s Baby” (1969) and “Chinatown” ...

'I'm your ghost," announces Ewan McGregor's character in "The Ghost Writer," in which he plays a steadfastly anonymous author assigned to pen the memoirs of a retired British prime minister. Indeed, ...

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 ...

Lou Reed once said his shit was better than other people’s diamonds. So it is with filmmaker Roman Polanski, who brings such a masterly touch to whatever he does that even a low-key thriller like The ...