A Ghost Story

"One of the – many – things that marks David Lowery’s A Ghost Story out from the pack is that it centres on a songwriter (Casey Affleck) who’s actually pretty good. The composition he plays halfway through the film is, in fact, Dark Rooms’ I Get Overwhelmed, a work of anxious, soaring beauty. Shame the film can’t reach such heights."

"I found A Ghost Story mostly alienating, at times even annoying."

"While Lowery's actual method of delivery may not be scary, it's sure to haunt those who open themselves up to the experience."

"The film does, with great artistry and sincerity, the kind work of saying what so many of us have been thinking. It's our common late-night worries made manifest, then carried beyond our imagination."

"The collision of aesthetics - a cartoonish, Halloween-costume-grade specter haunting a quiet indie - is the point where A Ghost Story asks the most of us. But how thrilling it is to be jostled."

"A cheerful, funny, affectionate and endlessly loveable film about what it means to live a life."

"A poetic meditation on time, memory and spiritual connection that is utterly true to its title."

"'A Ghost Story' is inventive, tragic, moving, and told with a deft touch. It will haunt you."

"A Ghost Story is a deliberate abstraction, and as such, it's easy to appreciate its conceptual audacity and its visual beauty."