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100
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San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
A 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]
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88
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The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Jay Scott
It's an unpredictable, mesmerizing journey nearly every shady second of the way.
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75
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Chicago Tribune Dave Kehr
There 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]
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63
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
One of the irritations of Ghost is that the Moore character is such a slow study.
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60
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The New York Times Elvis Mitchell
Nothing if not earnest. It's also eccentric enough to remain interesting even when its ghost story isn't easy to believe.
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60
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Washington Post Rita Kempley
Three losers of late, the actors succeed quite nicely in unifying the movie's multiple personalities, its ricocheting screenplay.
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50
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USA Today Susan Wloszczyna
Goldberg has her best role in a while, especially when she twitches and grunts her way into phony trances. Poor Demi, though, cries enough tears to drench a small drought-stricken state. [13 July 1990, Life, p.4D]
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50
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Washington Post Desson Thomson
It's formula-packed business as usual. In fact, it's double-packed, triple-packed, more.
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40
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Los Angeles Times Sheila Benson
In 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]
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38
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Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Though saddled with hoary jokes, Goldberg at least pumps some funky life into the bland proceedings.
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