pulling the feels…
pulling the feels…
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FUN
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how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
51
how much it moved you
Two separate readings, not parts of the score — the score says how much of it held you, these say what kind of watch it was.
Nobody has rated this on FlickFeel yet. This is public discussion of this title, read into a curve. It is not a rating and it never becomes one.
Read from 50 comments (48 from Metacritic, 2 from TMDB reviews) — 30 of them described how it moves.
➖ steady — Holds one level all the way. Pulled both ways throughout — never simply one thing. Very little of it ever resolves. Marked above the line: 1 that landed as a blow.
Hover the curveDrag across the curve to see what people said at any point.
“the first hour paces a little slow”
alejandro970 · Metacritic ↗
“particullarly at final act”
alejandro970 · Metacritic ↗
“for more than 2 hours that can be easily exhausting”
amheretojudge · Metacritic ↗
“dull and loosely edited that has no amount of crisp or tangent in it”
amheretojudge · Metacritic ↗
“Movie made you feel whole time like you are sitting on needles”
drone41 · Metacritic ↗
“Too slow for a thriller”
nblakely · Metacritic ↗
Read 28 Aug 2026 · confidence 100% · scored on the same 0-100 scale as a community score · how this works
Published reviews, not felt experience — a different question from the one above, and never mixed into the FlickFeel score.
“The Ghost Writer is the kind of impeccable adult entertainment, able to alternate edge-of-your-seat episodes with bleakly comic moments, that Hitchcock used to specialize in and that Polanski himself realized so successfully in "Chinatown" and "Rosemary's Baby."”
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times · 100
“The Ghost Writer is so rich you may feel you paid too little for your ticket when the whole thing meets its very Polanski-ish climax. Please don't tell anyone.”
John Anderson, Wall Street Journal · 100
“This movie is the work of a man who knows how to direct a thriller. Smooth, calm, confident, it builds suspense instead of depending on shock and action.”
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times · 100
“Here's another thought: This old man who can't leave the house has just made the first important film of 2010.”
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle · 100
“The Ghost Writer is a triumph: elegant, accomplished, and (this is the hardest part to admit) occasionally even wise.”
Dana Stevens, Slate · 90
Scores from Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes, read 28 Aug 2026. Quotes belong to their publications and link to the full reviews.
it reviews better than it plays — critics 81, the watch 65
Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.
“the first hour paces a little slow”
alejandro970about 0–33% inread it ↗
“particullarly at final act”
alejandro970about 75–100% inread it ↗
“for more than 2 hours that can be easily exhausting”
amheretojudgeabout 0–100% inread it ↗
“dull and loosely edited that has no amount of crisp or tangent in it”
amheretojudgeabout 0–100% inread it ↗
“Such an eerie and haunting movie… I expected just another political thriller, but this is so much more interesting… The remote setting, the media storm… the layered motivations of the characters, sexual, financial, political etc… It was also great to see cinematography that wasn’t just close ups of talking heads, which is the norm for these kinds of movies… I also liked the parallels to the real world, the Blair-esque prime minister, the Middle Eastern wars and such, but also that it re”
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