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Critical Consensus

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starstarstar Jonathan Foreman - NY Post
starstarstar Peter Brunette - Film.com
starstarstar Stephanie Zacharek - Salon
starstarstar Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
starstarstar Michael Wilmington - Chicago Tribune
starstarstar John Hartl - Seattle Times
starstarstar Gary Mairs - culturevulture.net
starstarstar Eric Harrison - LA Times
starstarstar Desson Howe - Washington Post
starstarstar Chris Vognar - Dallas Morning News
starstarstar Wesley Morris - SF Examiner
starstarstar Louis B. Parks - Houston Chronicle
starstarstar Jay Carr - Boston Globe
starstarstar A.O. Scott - NY Times
starstarstar James Berardinelli - ReelViews

[A] highly entertaining, often very funny movie that treats the many genres it combines with a respect all too rare among arty filmmakers

- Jonathan Foreman

[T]he movie turns into an exercise in ideas rather than an excursion along a stable narrative route. . . . Had the plot been better anchored, this would have been a strong, well-rounded film

- James Berardinelli

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

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Forest Whitaker plays a solitary contract killer for the mob who must defend himself against his employers when they decide they want him dead. John Tormey, Cliff Gorman, Henry Silva, Isaach De Bankolé, Tricia Vessey, Victor Argo, Gene Ruffini, Richard Portnow, Camille Winbush, Rob Kamphausen, Damon Whitaker. Director: Jim Jarmusch (1999, R)

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