To start off, the director of The Ghost Writer is a biggie. He's done great films, and he continues to make them (Chinatown, The Pianist, Rosemary's Baby). This movie proves it. It is about an unnamed ghost writer who is tasked with editing and reestablishing the memoir of the former British Prime Minister. It's eery, the way he goes about it, in the winter Martha's Vineyard in the room of the former ghost writer (who turned up dead). The movie is about this man's search for the truth within the dark past of the the Prime Minister. It is the way this movie goes about it's story that makes it so worthwhile. In the majority of American movies, suspense is characterized as some shit blowing up. But in this movie (as Hitchcock said) it is the shit not blowing up that causes suspense. It is quiet and scary, well acted all around. There are also a lot of "aww shit" moments. It's well done, worth seeing, quick, and places with some of the best thrillers of all time.
The Ghost Writer: ★★★★
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