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Metascore
17 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSan Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleA wonderful movie, sincere and inspired, with four terrific performances and a story that doesn't let up. The picture has the gentle, nourishing quality of a fairy tale that you want to believe, and the unsoftened impact of gut-level entertainment. [13 July 1990, Daily Datebook, p.E1]
- 88The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jay ScottThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jay ScottIt's an unpredictable, mesmerizing journey nearly every shady second of the way.
- 75Chicago TribuneDave KehrChicago TribuneDave KehrThere are still some astonishingly tender moments, including looks exchanged between Swayze and Moore that seem magically divorced from this summer of exploding jets, severed limbs and homicidal children. [13 July 1990, Friday, p.D]
- 63Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertOne of the irritations of Ghost is that the Moore character is such a slow study.
- 60TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineA big sweet hit, tingly and glycerined in a phony way, but diverting.
- 50Washington PostDesson ThomsonWashington PostDesson ThomsonIt's formula-packed business as usual. In fact, it's double-packed, triple-packed, more.
- 40Los Angeles TimesSheila BensonLos Angeles TimesSheila BensonIn all his athletic scenes, leaping through doors, leaping between uptown and downtown trains, leaping on an assortment of villains, Swayze is just fine. It's the movie's big cosmic questions that throw him; for these he's reduced to a look of total stupefaction--not the movie's finest moments. [13 July 1990, Calendar, p.F-1]
- 40The New RepublicStanley KauffmannThe New RepublicStanley KauffmannThe ghost is played by Patrick Swayze, who can't handle the part; his bereaved girlfriend, Demi Moore, is much better. [13 Aug 1990, p.30]
- 37Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversThough saddled with hoary jokes, Goldberg at least pumps some funky life into the bland proceedings.
- 30TimeRichard CorlissTimeRichard CorlissA bad movie that a lot of people will like... Though director Jerry Zucker wants his necrophiliac romance to be sensitive, he pumps up its feelings fortissimo so the dimmest viewer will get the point. [16 July 1990, p.86]